What’s up with the downvotes? This is absolutely a consistent libertarian perspective. It’s pretty rare that mass media will do something libertarian friendly, usually they’re appealing to one side or the other.
Libertarians should take this opportunity to really push hard for voting reform. Explain that something else (Approval voting, STAR, RCV, etc) could enable them to vote for a third party they like, without “throwing their vote away” if that candidate loses. This is a fantastic opportunity for all third parties to get the message out.
“It could be worse” isn’t particularly persuasive. But it’s looking like that’s what we’ll have. Again.
It can always be worse imo, but the fact is that it is rarely this bad. The two frontrunners are >70yo, which means there’s a very real health concern. Add to that Trump, who has demonstrated himself to be a very real threat to the country by not acting to stop the Jan 6 violence.
It can and should be way better, we’re just stuck because our voting system sucks and rhetoric seems to be having way more impact than before.
