You're asking why progressives don't vote in primaries. Because Americans are largely dumb as fuck and don't understand our own voting system. Because dumb fucks think a protest has power or sends a message instead of just getting republicans elected. Americans are uninvolved, uneducated, and entitled to the point they expect someone what to fix everything for them and refuse responsibility to be civilly engaged. Like you. You're blaming "the man" instead of the people that elected him. If Americans had intellectual curiosity at all whatsoever they wouldn't blindly accept obvious propaganda, but our culture prides itself on anti-intellectualism. Americans elected accurate representatives, and until they start fucking voting in their best interests, maga is a good representation of the average American. Take fucking responsibility for your own fuckin agency and responsibility as citizens. It's your fuckin job to be engaged and informed, and even in spite of all the disinformation that's not hard to do, but Americans don't fucking do it. They they blame everything else like little bitches. Like you're doing now. Vote in the primaries or you are getting what you voted for, period. Fuck off with that "the voters aren't responsible" horseshit.