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This was the exact shit said in 2020 and for years before that. There is no 'next generation Democrat' because the Dems are just as complicit in this farce as the Republicans. I refuse to vote for the party of "maybe we'll try to slow the rapid descent into christofascist capitalism just a little a bit, as long as it doesn't make the shareholders mad."
It's called "compromise" to make progress. Giving up allows the situation you're complaining about to only get worse.
We have to change our voting system in order to break out of the two party system, and only one of the two parties have people that support changing our voting system for the better. So, as shitty as it is, not voting Democrat is effectively voting against your own interests.
So we're supposed to keep voting for the same center right libs for eternity? The party leaders of the Democrats will never allow things like ranked choice voting because it takes power away from them. I do agree with you that at the local and state levels Democrats are far more likely than Republicans to support RCV, however with the federal Democrats in power nothing will change.
This is the slippery slope fallacy. Regardless of why you are saying this, it's an idea that Republicans are pushing to get people to believe.
There is no reason to believe that the DNC won't change, particularly as the ones you say fear taking their power away are old and cannot maintain this grip of power from the grave.
It's inevitable that the parties will change, and the GOP have shown the direction they want to change towards.