When you choose "existentialism" as a framing narrative for your entire election campaign, you deliberately create national "emergency-like" conditions, forcing people to suspend conscious thinking and instead vote in a herd, choosing between binaries like "us vs. them" or "the lesser evil."
I refuse to accept the idea that either Trump or Harris represents the end of democracy in America. I especially reject the notion that voting third party is equivalent to voting for "the other side." These are all byproducts of "existentialism" and fear-based politics promoted by both Republicans and Democrats.
This 'existential politics' not only robs the people of their agency and choice by raising the stakes too high but it also makes hate the primary force driving people to vote.
There is no winning in such a political ecosystem, only mutually assured destruction of American politics, democracy and society.
The only democratic thing then is to reject this 'existential politics' altogether.
True, but isn't it a psychic part of popular politics? No one competes for the greater good of people but for personal win. Democracy failed humanity! Period!