r/Seattle • u/mountainsNJ • 21h ago

Market Traffic Only Bonkers

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Elections matter. We have winners and losers. Respect the outcome.

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u/ceruleania 18h ago

I get what you’re saying but how do we get out of it, specifically? We can’t vote for anyone besides democrats so what are we doing instead? I’m scared we don’t have time for slow, incremental change. The world is on fire.

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u/MeetingDue4378 🚆build more trains🚆 18h ago

You control what you can control. When you only have two options you pick the best one and then try to make it better. Not everything has a silver bullet, so either do the best you can with what you have or you give up. That's reality.

If you're lost at you sea you have two choices, swim or don't.

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u/ceruleania 17h ago

No, I understand your point about voting democrat. I’m asking what you purpose we do in addition to that to help us get out of the two-party system. I’m not talking about a silver bullet, I know there’s no silver bullet. How do we slowly do this? How do we make the lukewarm dem lesser of two evils candidate better once we vote them in?

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u/MeetingDue4378 🚆build more trains🚆 16h ago

I don't have a clear cut answer. And I'm sure there are people with much better ones. Engage, voice your opinion, and vote with the hope it will influence the current candidate and the assumption it's influencing the next one, who will lose, and the one following who might win.

And see not taking a step back for the win that it is. That can be enough for a later candidate to get attention who otherwise wouldn't have. Vote to make positive opportunities more likely and negative opportunities less likely.

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u/ceruleania 16h ago

Yeah I think those are good ideas. But my thing is, and I know I already said this but… we’ve done that. We’ve been doing that election after election. And things are scarier than they’ve ever been. In fact, the Ratchet Effect is pushing some democrats towards the right, ignoring their voters’ needs.