Gert-Jan Kroese<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@flexghost" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>flexghost</span></a></span> in a two party system, even the frequent losers of elections have nothing to gain from rocking the boat. There’s simply too much (dirty) money in US politics, so the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/democraticparty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>democraticparty</span></a> will not change tack. Similar to <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> dismantling the ‘old’ (and then very unpopular) <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/gop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gop</span></a> during the 2016 election cycle, the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/dems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dems</span></a> need a <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/hurricane" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hurricane</span></a> to blow away the current establishment. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BernieSanders" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BernieSanders</span></a> tried in 2016, hopefully there will still be a choice to be made in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/2028presidentialelection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>2028presidentialelection</span></a></p>