I'd love to have that choice. Neither the Republican nor Democrat party in 2025 offers me that.

Well, then you have to fall back on whether one of them is at least better at it than the other, and it’s hard to believe that would be a difficult decision at the moment.

That's one option. Another option is to reject that either major party offers a sane choice and vote for a third party.

Unless the election already has an obvious winner so your vote doesn’t matter, that’s just silly. Write an editorial if you’re unhappy with the choice, but don’t throw away your vote and just roll the dice as if you’re indifferent to the two alternatives. (And if you really were indifferent to the alternatives this time around, I don’t know what to say.)

So “Democrat” is now an epithet. Please get help.

"Democrat Party" is an epithet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democrat_Party_(epithet)

Its usage often indicates the user gets their "news" from very particular sources.

I’ve been typing these comments on my phone. But, in any case, I don’t parse “democrat” as an epithet. You are looking for things to be offended about.