The Trolley Problem is a thought experiment to illuminate moral reasoning. It is not a model of the world. In fact, it is the exact opposite of a model of the world. It is a deliberately forced break from reality in order to isolate the moral reasoning.

We don't have a trolley problem here in the US. We have a single genocidal empire with a veneer of democracy for the masses that was never intended, and never has, represented the will of the masses. It was design, from the beginning, to be a conflict resolution mechanism for the elite merchant class and establish legitimacy for their rule. For each mechanism that would have allowed the masses a say in politics, the founders designed a system to prevent it from having an effect. That's not a flawed democracy. That's a shell game.

In The Trolley Problem, you have perfect information about the future, so you can say definitively that making a choice has a specific outcome. You don't have that in politics. Your claim is that things are better under Ds than Rs. My claim is that Ds and Rs are a continuity of harm that reinforce each other.

Case in point - the deployment of ICE into major cities. People like to claim that Trump did this and Harris would not have. But no one seems to want to engage with the fact that it would have been impossible for either of them to do so without Obama. Obama created the mechanisms that allowed ICE and BORTAC to be deployed to major US cities. He expanded them immensely. And he literally appointed Tom Homan, the same person Trump has relied on for this stuff. Without voting in Obama, we wouldn't have had Trump deploying these units to the cities.

But even more evidence that there aren't 2 tracks, only one - We all watched Trump deploy ICE and BORTAC to major US cities during his first term. The mechanisms he used to do that were created by Obama. Biden took office and in four years never did anything to reverse or structurally limit the features Trump used. We all watched Trump do it in Term 1. Biden campaigned on reclaiming the country's soul. Then, instead of doing anything, he simply chose to change the priorities of ICE and BORTAC, knowing full well that any future president could just go right back to doing what Trump had done. And that's exactly what happened.

So think about this, right. You and your partner are raising a kid. You and your partner agree that the kid shouldn't be allowed to mess up the house. Then your partner decides to get into finger painting as an art form. OK.... Weird, but fine. And then the kid gets into the finger paints and ruins the house. And you tell your partner that they better stop this, so they clean the walls, but they leave the finger paints in the same place. And the kid gets them again. Are you blaming the kid this time? No. Clearly negligence is a thing. Now, in this family drama, we can pretend your partner is just absent minded after the first time, but if it happens for a decade and every time you try to get rid of the finger paints they stop you and demand you help them clean up the walls and that if you don't you're just helping the child destroy the house further, at what point do you stop and realize that your partner is actively obstructing you?

There aren't two tracks. There's one. Bush 2 planned 7 wars after Afghanistan: Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Iran. Obama attacked 4 of them. Biden/Harris attacked 3 of them. It's one track. It's just genocidal global domination with a blue tie on or a red tie on. The two "tracks" are just PR firms. They know you have a particularly psychology so they pander to you. They say "we're the only ones worthy of your vote" and then they collaborate to go and kill the same people with the same guns from the same money. They say "we're the only ones with the potential for a better future, those other people are going to ruin the country and then nothing can be salvaged" and then collaborate to maintain the largest prison and parole system in the history of the world, complete with prison slavery, racialized murder and torture, and the worst outcomes in the world.

You're literally watching a sport, with two teams on the field, and telling me "we have to root for one of them" when the sport is literally two teams of white people competing to see who can lynch more dark skinned children.