God. The UK has a fucked system too, but just having a few viable third options would probably result in... at least mildly less fucked politics than we in the US currently suffer.

At least you lot can punish a party by actually removing electoral seats from a party busy fucking around without just saying "Here, fascists, it's all your's :)" and sending the wrong message entirely.

But yes, the most important thing at present for us, assuming elections mean anything going forward, is putting leftists on the ballot. That Mamdani managed such enthusiasm gives me some hope. Not a lot. But some.

If I were a religious man, I'd be sacrificing a cow for his success right about now. It's... pretty grim out here other than him, at the moment.