General Discussion

Glad you skipped past the point I was making to focus on that.

While I do hold my nose and vote for Democrats even if I have issues, I understand the mindset of people who do not.

If the choice is between two candidates that both happily support the status quo of insider trading and unlimited dark money and all the other things I listed (or a candidate that only pays lip service to those issues during election cycles but in their 15+ years has never actually done anything to change it) and said person doesn't want to vote for them, I get that too.

Cynicism is hard to overcome as it is but it's even harder to overcome if people don't see any significant difference (while you and I may think that's easy, if your main focus is getting money and graft out of politics but the only two candidates you have to vote for got 75% or more of their donations from PACs and corporations it's hard to make the argument they are fundamentally different).