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Americans: "Voting 3rd party is a waste of a vote, you need to vote the lesser fascist or democracy is over"
Also Americans: [pencils in the stupidest shit to the point a fictional character wins the popular vote]
Do you have a helpful statement?
Use that fancy internet thing of yours to organize a mass movement and vote for a 3rd party candidate that represents the people.
Imo, pretty much all third party candidates are doomed to lose, no matter who they are, unless they have explicit backing of one of the two major parties.
The best thing to do is change the rules before you try to play by them. This means attacking the 2 party system by the actual weak link: the first past the post voting system. Run on and vote in candidates to the two parties who vow to dismantle it. Elections are run by the locally, so we can do this state by state, city by city. This is achievable and has already started in some cities.
or to come up with and pressure for a better system in the first place
This is unironically the truth.
and they're going to continue to dangle that in front of you until it happens.
Nah, it is what the Republicans and Democrats want you to believe so they don't lose power.