That’s only true if you believe the Dems will do something substantive. They had decades to figure out how to do that, they didn’t. I voted Dem since I turned 18, volunteered and worked on campaigns and GOTV efforts. And last year I had to have parts of my body removed so I could have bodily autonomy because of a Supreme Court where half the justices were selected by presidents who lost the popular vote. If voting worked, we wouldn’t be where we are. Vote Dem as a harm-reduction measure in your swing-state, 100%. But here in NYC, I can vote however I want in national elections, because it’s not like we’re going red.

I’m not suicidal. What you seem not to understand is that my stance is that the Nazis will win, either way, and we need to be preparing to fight that, not wasting our energy on the Dems, whose only functions seem to be slowing the pace of the destruction and serving to block people from making other electoral choices. If I were starting from the assumption that the Dems would make things better or even hold the line, as you do, yeah, my beliefs would be nuts. But our base premises here are different. Each thinks the other is delusional, and there’s no way to actually know until the future comes.