Third party voting is a piss poor substitute for voting reform. Your vote is counted but it does not count for shit. Your electoral college delegates' votes are the only ones that count toward who is elected.
Counted doesn't mean matters. You can be proud of being among the 7% who voted third part this year all you want when Trump's goons send you to prison for being trans
Sure, but it would be a lot easier for Joe to win KS than for Jo to win any state. Joe only has to convert like 8% of trump voters. Jo would have to convert 40+% from the two real parties. I'm certainly not gonna help Trump win, so I'm gonna vote for whoever has the highest chance of making him not.
It sucks that we're in a system that forces us to vote against the worst party rather than for the best one, but like. This is the system we're in. If we pretend it isn't happening, we're only going to hurt ourselves.
Literally the same thing as far as I'm concerned. We live in the real world. A third party is not beating the two main parties any time soon, and pretending that they might only harms us.