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GUYS ITS JUST A TROLLEY PROBLEM
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That's mostly because not enough people are willing to put in the work down ballot years prior to a presidential campaign to do anything. You have an infinitesimal number of 3rd party candidates holding local offices, almost none holding state offices, and only four independents in Congress (...two of whom are not running for reelection).
If you're not seeing 3rd party people getting elected to state and national office, then voting 3rd party for president is obviously a losing strategy.
been plenty enough people to put in the work
can't win with a rigged board
Given that independent (non-Democratic/Republican) candidates hold only a very, very tiny minority of all elected positions, I'd say that there have not been plenty of people putting in the work. Shit, look at local election; school boards positions elections sometimes have less than a thousand voters participating, depending on the school board. You should absolutely be able to get enough people knocking on doors to get Libertarian candidates (in Republican-dominated areas) or Green candidates (in Democratic-dominated areas) winning, if you just had people going out and knocking on doors.
But they don't, because it's all armchair politics without willingness to put in the real work. I've never seen a thing targeted at me for 3rd party candidates.