electoralism

The only problem here is that democrats don't care if they lose - it just means going back to being in the opposition and fleecing the ~~rubes~~ ~~true believers~~ Democratic voting base by sending increasingly apocalyptic emails about whatever shit would've been happening anyway regardless of who's in charge. I'd be willing to bet money that if the voting base got whittled down to one guy in Toledo named Dave the whole system would continue to lurch on and we'd get breathless news about how the latest mass casualty shooting was influencing the Daveometer. Voter participation is just window dressing at this point.