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I'm sure the party cares deeply about this justification, since that seems to be all they're running on these days.
I remember back in 1984 when such a strategy was considered comical:
Says the guy who thinks that repeatedly voting in a game that was rigged from the start isn't "doing the same thing over and over while expecting a different result".
Non-fascists will be forced to accept that working within a system that's designed to disenfranchise them can never produce a democratic government and join with the anti-fascists. The dictatorship is subsequently overthrown by popular action at the cost of many lives (which likely includes my own as a nonbinary person with left-wing politics). This creates space for a second constitutional convention to fundamentally reform the law of the land.
We've been 100% fucked for longer than you've been alive, the only question is whether or not you're comfortable with the current rate of fuckery and what you're willing to risk to change it.
Lol, of course not. I have merely accepted that nothing short of a second American Revolution could overthrow the two-party system and that things will definitely get worse before they can get better.
Hell, I predicted this way back in November 2016. Trump's win would galvanize the Democrats in 2020, and the subsequent lack of meaningful change depresses the vote enough that 2022 and 2024 go to the republicans. Trump then punishes his percieved enemies while the Democrats continue to chase Republican voters to the right, further fracturing their own left-wing base.