It's probably easier to just blame me than look at the absurdity of what Democrats did in 2024 and admit it to themselves.

As far as voting reform goes, the American people have been powerless to do that in any meaningful way for our entire history. The founders only gave wealthy, landowning men the right to vote. There was never any real intention for the poor or working class to be able to select a president. Our only real political power is local, and at least locally, good things are still possible. (For now.)

Millennia ago there was Athenian democracy. Randomly select citizens to fill roles in judiciary, executive council and assembly for a year. Pretty hard to corrupt. Worked well for centuries, they even returned to it after king making coups. Representative democracy was corrupt and serving the rich and powerful about day one. Sure, first past the post is awful, but there's higher things to aim for than Instant-runoff or whatever. Direct democracy is more viable than ever.

I don't know that they're necessarily centrists. I think they're as hopeless as I am and, at this point, things just feel less bleak electing a genocider that pretends to like gay people or whatever vs a genocider who hates and insults everyone. (Not that I would agree, and in fact, it infuriates me even more when a politician leverages the language of equality and progress to cover war crimes.)

But hopefully they recognize that they have actual power in their local neighborhood and aren't willing to vote 'blue no matter who' there.