Perfect summation of US politics right there. There are ways around these limitations like ranked-choice voting (or similar), but both parties have a vested interested in actively blocking any change that could potentially break up their monopoly. In the meantime, our options are basically to continue trying to vote in more progressive candidates to represent us (and hope they don’t get corrupted as quickly by corporate-run politics), or take more “aggressive” action and become a targetted enemy of the state.

I feel happy!