This last couple of election cycles have been, in the most fucked up hellworld way, very cathartic for that reason. The evidence that the US electoral system is wildly undemocratic has been there all along, but the mainstream sentiment has always maintained that the US is a functioning democracy. I'm sure plenty of people still see it that way, but this past couple of years has proven beyond any doubt that even if voters might decide the outcome of an election (sort of, barely), they have no real impact on who actually represents them. Everything from the DNC fuckery to the DCCC progressive challenge blacklist has proven, out int he open, that the people in power are willing to allow people to choose exclusively between pre-approved options, like you would do with a toddler. I now have no qualms about having a conversation with someone about the fact that the US electoral system isn't a real democracy, because it very blatantly isn't.