"...a corrupt tree cannot bring forth good fruit."
This is why democracy is a scam. Who we choose to vote for in elections doesn't matter when the candidates that stand for election are all corrupt minions of oligarchs, and the services of corporate media that are used to batter our grasp of reality into conceptions that only understand what oligarchs want us to, and are diverted from attention to the things that actually really matter to us, promote to us these groveling toadies of oligarchs based on choices between policies that are ubiquitously contrary to our interests.
Policies that would be beneficial may be dangled by minion A or B during a campaign, briefly and non-specifically, like Trump dangled elimination of income taxes. But these rhetorical devices never become actual implementations when the elections are over. Instead of eliminating illegal taxes on wages - which aren't actually defined as income for the purposes of taxation under law - we simply get new taxes, the tariffs that we were told would replace taxing our wages in an ERS that replaced the IRS. Instead of getting relief from getting screwed financially by that insuperable taxation of our wages, we are getting spit roasted by adding a new screwing from the new taxes added to the economic impediments we have to overcome to thrive.
The lesser of two evils cannot be good, because by definition it is evil. In fact by controlling candidacy, these machinations destroy the value of democracy, turning it into a choice between overseers granted slaves, not means of self-governance sovereign rulers refine by electoral mechanisms. Instead of participating in sham elections between evils, imposing policies by the deed, by creating wealth using means of production we own and retaining it without enabling oligarchs to sap our economic strength by parasitizing our production, and using our wealth to bolster each other locally, regionally, and across geopolitical boundaries, we defund Machiavellian manipulators that treat us like cattle and harm us for their profits.
We must eliminate the vectors of deception that are used to parasitize us, these elections that sap our economic strength by posing only the Mayor Basses, and Governor Newscums for us to choose to be deprived by. By creating policies by the deed, through economic interactions with one another that oligarchs cannot parasitize, we vote with our productivity for securing our neighborhoods with groups we man rather than mercenary forces inserted into our neighborhoods like foreign troops into hostile territories with APC's and shock troops. We surveil our own neighborhoods with CCTV we don't share with overlords, but watch and share between us ourselves. There's a reason that there aren't neighborhood wifi networks, but all communications locally are directed at national levels.
We don't have to put up with that, and creating neighborhood chat groups is one of the functions on Fakebook that has been attempted locally. This has been rather ineffective because it was controlled by developers, and subject to Fakebook, but the idea behind it was sound, and even neutered by these limitations it enabled useful networking across the neighborhood that was quicker than coffee cake visits, garage sales gossip, and book club meetings. These can be better effected via open source apps like Element and federated networks that would eliminate censorship by Web2 oligarchs and the centralization they impose, preventing capture of the communications by developers through enabling individuals to control their feeds and communications personally.
Elections are a scam because they are coordinated behind the scenes and imposed on us. We can eliminate their fraudulent imposition on us by effecting policies ourselves through our coordination of our economic development in cooperation locally, by ourselves interacting with regional partners at will in ad hoc meetings of stakeholders - not the minions of oligarchs bent on parasitizing us, but we that are actually inhabiting the developments we develop ourselves. By eliminating the parasitization that can be imposed on our wealth, we can eliminate the elections of officials to rule over us through eliminating the resources they can employ to enrich oligarchs. It won't be instant, and it will take work, but it will succeed at defunding sham democracy that only offers to allow us to choose overseers that parasitize us and feed oligarchs.
Centralization is the enemy of freedom, and decentralization, or the implementation of policies by those affected being the same that effect them, is freedom, and the quality of civilization is dependent on the economic power of the civil society. By retaining our wealth we produce independently we increase our economic power and reduce that of our enemies, increasing the blessings of civilization we create and reducing that parasitization that causes slums and ghettos to replace vibrant, thriving neighborhoods.
Thanks!