This is a fun video to watch. Rachel Blevins is quite concise in laying out the problem. So what do we do?

Sam Husseini has a scheme. The idea, here, is to get (D) voters and (R) voters to pair up and to desert the duopoly. It's encouraging to see that the human imagination is being employed here, more or less in the way in which speculative fiction is encouraging. (Here I'm operating with the Margaret Atwood definitions, in which speculative fiction actually tries to portray a future whereas science fiction is a genre of fantasy which uses props which were once considered "futuristic.")

I did cringe a bit when Husseini said "it you're a leftie, it has to be somebody who prefers Trump over Harris." Now, I suppose "lefties" prefer Harris over Trump in actual practice, though to say so is to emphasize how pointless it is to be a "lefty" in today's America. A related problem of course is that there are plenty of lefties who already prefer Trump over Harris. Husseini seems to be deluded as to how thoroughly bad Biden foreign policy has been. It goes way, way beyond genocide.

The catch, of course, is that the two parties have different modes of public presentation.

1) The Democratic Party of today presents itself to the public in the way in which a relatively new cult presents itself to the uninitiated. You are to buy into their fantasy version of the world, in the same sense in which Scientologists claim to believe in "thetans" and so on, and if you don't, if perhaps you've kept your eyes open and can see the vast gulf between Dem rhetoric and Dem actions (see e.g. Kamala Harris' pronouncements on Israel/ Palestine), you are their inferior, you belong in what Hillary Clinton called the basket of deplorables. The ferocity with which the Dems pursue initiation ("Trump is HITLER! Study Project 2025!" and so on) must sufficiently compensate to meet the cult's need for solid foundations. They can offer you nothing because they are riding on a reputation of having offered you something when Lyndon Baines Johnson was President.

2) The Republican Party of today presents itself as a cult which has achieved maturity. They've achieved what they think is an optimal mix of truth and falsehood, and maybe they fool you into thinking they are communicating with you when in fact they are communicating with their followers. Their ideology can be slipped in because otherwise well-meaning people already subscribe to their core, privileged white adolescent Ayn-Rand-worshiping male, or fundamentalist pseudo-Christian, tenets. They are totally convinced that there's such a thing as the "Franklin School," per Mark Levin, and that America is ruled by a "far left." They can offer you nothing because you've already bought into the notion that you're going to get nothing from them.

The cult populations themselves come in the form of another binary, and so for instance you have a) the vast population of volunteers, whose sad lives are spent doing the dances for free, and b) the well-paid, who are willing to say that up is down, big is small, and two-plus-two is five (apologies to George Orwell) because doing so achieves them a meal ticket. The volunteers, then, will need deprogramming.

Moreover, "deprogramming" must itself be deprogrammed. The problem is not that the two-party volunteers need to reorient their lives upon a rational basis, for in fact they already view themselves as doing just that. Everyone must start with Castoriadis:

Man’s distinguishing trait is not logic but imagination and, more precisely, unbridled imagination, defunctionalized imagination. (247)

The trick for the individual is to be able to see, which is to say, to imagine, a reality which it benefits that individual to see. The important thing is to show that the sorry notions of reality promoted by the Democrats and by the Republicans do not benefit their volunteers.

At any rate, kudos to Rachel Blevins and Sam Husseini for making a stab at genuine argumentation of the sort which beats talking points by a country mile.