It’s an elaborate way of making the rest of us do the work of deciding.

You don’t decide anything. You’re just validating the corrupt, effectively single party, system, and pretending it’s a choice to soothe your conscience.

This whole article is basically just an elaborate form of political victim blaming.

It’s the same argument used all over the world to get the populace to accept the existing status quo, and is exactly the reason why more and more voters flock to populist extremists like Trump and his kind.