Attack on voting

[Mister Agenda]

I was a card-carrying 'big L' Libertarian for about 20 years. I was active, went to meetings. My softening on the position was gradual and I started calling myself a 'liberaltarian', but still voted LP whenever they had a candidate I could vote for. I would even vote for a Green if they weren't running against a Libertarian, because the status quo was so awful and I wanted to take some sort of stand against it. If there wasn't an LP or Green candidate I went by whoever I thought was best for the job out of those available. Over time that became almost exclusively Democrats down ballot, but I live in SC so voting for a Democrat is fairly disruptive of the status quo. And I bought into the popular LP maxims 'voting for the lesser evil is still voting for evil' and 'there's not a dime's worth of difference between the Democrats and Republicans'.

Now I'm a Democrat and what tipped me over was America voting for the most obvious greater evil of my lifetime (I voted for Johnson in 2016) and the Democrats and Republicans sorting themselves into democracy and science vs. populism and conspiracy. I'm not loyal, I'll drop the Democrats like a hot potato if the Republicans ever become better than them.