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The problem is sadly a bit more complicated. Thanks to the winner takes all system over in america a third party candidate has virtually no chance of being elected. Therefore if you want to counter a candidate you disagree with you have to necessarily vote for the most popular candidate that you can mildly agree with.
Some states have signed a pact to switch to ranked choice voting (i think new york and new hampshire are among them) which will help a lot with this problem on a state level. Only when most states adopt this it will matter on a national level.
Then and only then will it be viable to vote third party.
Well good luck! This back and forth between two parties looks like it's destroying your country through division.
The only ones seemingly coming out on top are the people in those parties and their corporate friends
You're not wrong but I think things have been much worse in the past few years thanks to trumpism and social media using destructive algorithms. I only see a future for the US if a non-GOP candidate wins.
Roughly 1/3rd (maybe slightly less) of the US population looks like it has the same feeling, but directed in the opposite direction.
Another 1/3rd feels the way you do, and the remaining 1/3rd doesn't care to vote
Common ground then, I don't think will be found with continuing this game of duopoly
You're right though, that Trumpism era caused more divide, but there's even more folks paying attention now thanks to that
All just my opinion as an outsider though, maybe I'm not seeing everything