A first past the post voting system that over-represents rural areas
The extremely conservative US mindset
The fact that right wingers are somewhat unified and will always vote for their candidate no matter what while progressives are split.
The fundamental problem is that you can’t possibly hope to boil politics down into two parties. Republicans are far right while Democrats are liberal conservatives. There exist leftist ideas within the democratic party but they don’t really have a voice. What you need to fix this mess is proportional voting, a less powerful president and preferably one who is elected by a parliament coalition and not directly.
Until you have that, the only sane thing to do is vote for the less insane party.
How do you think we got trump in the first place?
A first past the post voting system that over-represents rural areas
The extremely conservative US mindset
The fact that right wingers are somewhat unified and will always vote for their candidate no matter what while progressives are split.
The fundamental problem is that you can’t possibly hope to boil politics down into two parties. Republicans are far right while Democrats are liberal conservatives. There exist leftist ideas within the democratic party but they don’t really have a voice. What you need to fix this mess is proportional voting, a less powerful president and preferably one who is elected by a parliament coalition and not directly.
Until you have that, the only sane thing to do is vote for the less insane party.