“Or are we just jerking off?”

Sherm opines that if you voted R or D yesterday, don’t come crying when things don’t change.
Respectfully: I disagree, because the alternative wasn’t worth the trouble. It looks to me like the best any L did yesterday was just over 5%, and that was in a small district; he polled only 400 or so votes. Most were under 3%. That’s not a candidacy; that’s a joke. You could run a write-in campaign and get more votes than that. Yet the Libertarians do this consistently, election after election, and never really even get a toehold. Get the L vote up over 10% and maybe I’ll change my mind, but I voted for what I saw to be the lesser of two weevils.
Now, look: I know personally several of the L’s who ran here yesterday (including Ed Coleman, who unfortunately committed political suicide when he switched parties, and Chris Hodapp, whom I’ve known for 35 years and who stood up with me at my wedding and who was raised a Master Mason on the same day in the same lodge as I was). Sadly, they would have been better off throwing their efforts to the R’s, although in both cases cited, the R won handily anyway.
Building a party is hard work. You have to have charismatic candidates who can get out there and play with the big boys. I didn’t see that in this election from the Libertarians — certainly not in their mayoral choice. Give me somebody that I want to vote for and I probably will.
In the meantime, the L’s remind me of the preacher in Blazing Saddles praying before the big showdown: “Or are we just jerking off?
[EDIT TO ADD] I’d also make the point that it’s the 70% of the electorate who didn’t vote yesterday who have no right to complain. At least 30% of us got out and did our civic duty, no matter how we leaned in any given contest.