1/ To those who think a response to the corporate Dems' dominance of the system, the party duopoly etc is to sit out the election or vote third party, I'd like to give my thoughts: 1) You'll teach them nothing by not voting. It didn't teach them anything in '16 & it won't in '20.

2/ The way to respond is to beat them at the ballot box. Unglamourous, nitty gritty campaign work.Yet is was rigged at the presidential level, but w/ down-ballots we've had plenty of opportunity already & progressives haven't always shown up the way we might: Romanoff in CO etc.

3/ If we really want political power, then we have to be involved in politics - not just comment on its injustices from someplace above it all. Yes, it's dirty. That just means we have to get dirt under our fingernails & help the candidates who would fix it if they were in there.

Good policies have never been gained through a lesser of two evil vote but through movement outside of electoral politics... the politicians don't enact what the people want because you voted them in, but because they're terrified you'll burn down society with them still inside.

Not true. It STARTS on the outside, but then has to move inside. Abolition, Women's Suffrage, Civil Rights are all examples.

It doesn't "move inside" it forces the hand of those already inside.