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We clearly already failed. Despite there being better candidates, most of the country seems hell bent on supporting the status quo. “Law and order” crowd backing a felon, ACAB crowd supporting a prosecutor. Both of who are backed by the richest people in the country and spending over a billion each. The mental gymnastics to consider third party a waste compared to trading in all your morals for “lesser evil,” it is just astounding.
A third party vote is a waste until the system is fundamentally changed. Rather than spending all the effort trying to sabotage the election for Trump, if all of the people doing this instead put that effort into promoting systemic reform from the ground up, we'd all support you, instead of thinking you're Russian propagandists astroturfing.
Bro, you people always say its the wrong time or place. You think I am a Russian propagandist because I am upset people like yourself want to support the status quo? Since we are being baseless in our accusations, how do I know you’re not an Israeli operative since you came here to tell me I am wrong if I don’t vote for one of the two pro-genocide candidates?
If you're a progressive leaning individual and still can't see why voting for someone who can actively beat Trump is the only option right now, I really don't know what to tell you.
You want to work to get third party candidates into other positions? Local government, state government, congress? I'm with you. All for it. Let's do it. But if you honestly think that this is the time to cast a protest vote for president, you either aren't paying attention at all, or you're being willfully ignorant. Or you honestly think there's no difference if Trump or Harris wins and if that last one is the case, then you are well and truly lost and I have nothing else to say to you.