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What are you suggesting? Because nothing short of nationwide militant revolution is going to change the facts for any country. "Both sides are the same" is the kind of rhetoric that got the US in the shit it's in now, for example. Yes, the system needs to be completely overhauled but that's not going to happen overnight. Nobody's saying strategic voting is the answer, it's making the best of a bad situation. Sometimes you need to make incremental progress by choosing the least bad option, because the alternative is worse. No, Kamala would not have been the best pick to be US president, but if you are honestly saying she'd have been the same as Trump you either haven't been paying attention for the last decade or are actively trying to disenfranchise voters. Either way, keep that shit to yourself.
That's nonsense, you need to keep your militant revolution shit to yourself. Protests and civil disobedience are extremely powerful motivators that can affect real change, yes, but they are not a militant revolution, and there are grassroots and progressive options for democratic change. No, the US may never lose the two-party system, but voting is not just something you do for a president, and it does not always mean simply walking into a voting booth, casting your vote and going home and shrugging if the result isn't the one you voted for.
Desegregation and women's suffrage were both accomplished with great effort by accepting neither party's position on the issues and actively forcing a third option onto the table. This was not accomplished by simply "voting for the democratic party a bunch of times".
I'm not suggesting violence, I'm saying that's the only thing that would change things overnight. Lasting change takes time. Desegregation and women's sufferage didn't magically spawn a third party, they were both accomplished by years of hard work forcing the two existing parties to acknowledge them as genuine issues. Throwing your hands up and saying "they're all the same anyway" does nothing but make way for the people working very hard to make things worse.