The problem in the US is the two-party system that makes real progress impossible, not people who don't get that excited about election after election where their choices are a right-leaning centrist and a fascist.
And for the record, yes I voted for Hillary and yes I'm going to vote for Biden. But I don't think the Green party is the enemy and I don't think it's constructive to paint them all as political naifs or uncompromising unicorn chasers or people in bed with Putin.
There is an actual by God existential climate emergency going on right now. In a rational society how to respond to it would be the only thing politicians would be talking about. To the extent that they can keep focus on that reality and for the need for serious electoral reform in the US, I support them.
The two most successful democracies today (Germany and New Zealand) both use mixed-member proportional voting and have a large number of political parties. It would be healthy for US democracy if there was a need for coalition building across the progressive left to centre right instead of the current see-sawing between governance by the middle hamstrung by obstruction from the right and governance by the right-wing lunatic fringe tearing down our institutions.
At some point there will be a critical mass of Republicans sick of voting for Tea Party crypto-fascists and Progressives sick of voting for Centre-Right consensus candidates. A move to multiple parties would be good for America. We just need one side to blink first.
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