Also, when people haven’t spent decades insisting that voting your conscience is “throwing your vote away”, “wasted”, or somehow counts as a vote for someone you didn’t actually vote for.
Seriously, when third party candidates can’t crack 5% of the vote despite 2/3 of people saying they want a third party, when a candidate can get nearly 20% of the popular vote and not one single electoral vote, when it’s proven time and time again that the only way to win as an independent is to ally yourself with a major party and yet no matter how much popular support you get you’ll never actually get their nomination; we need to accept the fact that the Democrats are just as culpable in rigging the system as the Republicans, even if the Republicans have been more successful at it.
