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Not having a choice and being fine with with the choice you have are drastically different situations, and it's concerning how many people are incapable of unwilling to tell the difference between the two.
I would argue the entire problem is the self-defeating mentality that the D vs R choice is the only choice. It's in fact the population believing that - in itself - that results in the poor election outcomes for third parties. Something which was not true as recently as 30 years ago.
The population, in fact, has the option to vote for any candidate on the ballot, or even write in candidates. The so-called "viability" of third party candidates is a mental fiction. The "viability" only has to do with people's willingness to vote for them, which, in a massive circular logic, is based on their perception that the rest of the population will not vote for them. That is the actual mechanism at play here (besides the truly brainwashed, faithful supporters of the two major parties, at least).
In fact, the entire U.S. constitutional system is only a tradition/custom, that we have the option to up and abandon when it no longer serves us. The reason we get stuck with it is the various state actors (cops, military) who do not understand that it's not some sacred inviolable thing, or actually support it, and are willing to use violence on the population to enforce its implementation. What actually happens if the indoctrination of the entire population - Trump and Harris supporters and all - is undone, and we come up with a different, better vision for our society?
I'm not going to read the rest of your response, because you might as well be telling me that the person with the most points isn't the one who wins the superbowl. Between that and what little I read of your second paragraph tells me you either don't understand the system, or you don't understand game theory when one side is always going to vote for their guy regardless of how criminal or openly fascistic he is.
It isn't a self defeating choice that got us here it's literally how the system was designed. You say it wasn't like this 30 years ago, but I question how much you remember of the bush elections, because it's worse, but this was the natural progression with a party who is pathologically against actual governance.
Then don't reply.
Humans are not robots. Anyone can vote for anyone. Their mindset at the time of voting is the only thing that determines their vote. Do notice how fixated people are on attacking third party voters with almost no influence over the election, instead of... 77 million? Trump voters, who decided the election. Have you tried unbrainwashing them at all? Like, tally up all the time you spent trying to influence people's votes - what percent was aimed at Trump voters?
It resulted from the design of the system + our society, but those two things are not mutually exclusive. Logical error.