The answer has always been:
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Vote locally!
Don't just vote in major elections, vote in state elections and smaller ones too. The more local, the more your vote matters.
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Vote in primaries!
This is where we can actually get good candidates. If you look at left leaning people their turnout rates in primaries are atrocious. This is why Bernie lost, and Trump won.
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Vote for the best VIABLE candidate.
Yeah I know voting blue no matter who sucks but once we reach the general election it's too late. And we have reached the point where the worst Democrats (like Fetterman) are STILL better than the "best" Republicans (like Collins). Maybe someday if we get enough good people elected we can create a system that makes third party candidates more viable, but you need to be pragmatic and recognize that trying to change things by "sending a message" or something is futile.
Republicans have been doing the above three things for 50 years, and it's worked amazingly well for them. They have minority rule over all three branches of government. People on the left keep doing the opposite of what works in the system then blaming the system. Yeah, the system sucks, but ask yourself, how are you gonna change it?
man - noun. A miserable pile of secrets.
EXAMPLE: What is a man? A miserable little pile of secrets. But enough talk, HAVE AT YOU!