What’s more likely:

It’s funny, the guy below you at the time of my reply is basically saying that without the /s.

By the way, nice to see you again!

obama bombed the fuck out of syria and no one batted an eye. all technically legal.

biden is signing some hefty sums to israel, pretty sure thats legal too.

so, like, yeah maybe.

Which party do I vote for that stops spending money on weapons or war?

Probably one of the third parties running who they are encouraging you not to “waste” your vote on

More importantly than president: Down ballot. Start with your local representative and non federal positions. Local elections usually have less party lines and you may find political alignment there.

The Presidency is mostly a sock puppet for the military industrial complex. We aren’t catching lightning in a bottle there.

First past the post elections. If we had ranked choice or runoff elections, more parties would appear.

Instead, in FPTP, every vote that is not for one of the two highest-polling candidates is objectively a wasted vote, since the game theory makes the possibility of a third party gaining enough votes to win in any single election nearly infinitesimal. So instead of many parties, all candidates self-sort into one of the two viable parties.

So what about primaries? The primary system decides the candidates, but even that is a game-theory-laden mess, because primary voters have to guess which will perform better in a FPTP general election and often vote against their ideal candidate in the hopes of winning the general.

In short, until we structurally reform elections to be ranked/STAR/runoff/etc to remove the punitive effect of voting for your actual ideal candidate, we’re stuck with a prisoner’s dilemma election every time.

As a non-american just watching the democratic shitshow I can’t believe why on earth there are only two parties.

In a lot of cases, there’s only one real functioning party. Smaller states and gerrymandered districts tend to have a single dominant party and a secondary dissident party, with the dominant party controlling all the statewide offices and most of the legislative seats, while the dissident party controls some number of municipal seats where they have a local majority.

Macrons party in France was fresh up from the ground at his first election.

Macron spun En Marche out of the collapsed ruin of Hollande’s Socialist Party (*) (for whom he was deputy secretary general until Hollande’s ouster). He was more akin to Lincoln’s Republicans (who emerged from the wrecked carcass of the American Whig Party) or Theodore Roosevelt’s Bull Moose Party (which might as well have been Republicans For Roosevelt Party, given how badly Wilson rocked both him and Taft).

(*) don’t get too existed. they were pretty thin on actual socialism.

Le Penn’s National Front has a real foundation (of French fascists) that existed before she started mobilizing the party and will stick around after she’s gone. Similarly the New Popular Front (not to be confused with The People’s Front of Judea rimshot) has a broad coalition of support that transcends any one leader. Both are more in line with a traditional American party.