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A democracy should be about voting for what you believe is the best course of action, and not to meta game the system. The system breaks when people think like this "if I don't vote for the other option my vote doesn't count".
Sup? I'm here to remind you that you don't live in a perfect reality and never will.
It doesn't matter what SHOULD be. It matters what IS.
If you want to vote 3rd party in local/state elections to try to help build their influence and get more than ZERO of their members in Congress, that's great. But if you vote 3rd party in a presidential election when a 3rd party stands exactly NO chance of winning, then you are a fool who is throwing your vote away and acknowledging that you're fine with the worst case scenario happening.
To be clear, the 3rd party candidate with the most votes in the 2024 presidential election only got 0.5% of the total votes cast. Proving that there is no reality in which a 3rd party candidate wins the presidency.
I could have voted for Jeff Goldblum for president, cuz I think he's a cool guy. But that would have been pretty stupid, wouldn't it?
Solution is to abolish first-past-the-post first. Not to ignore mathematics and pretend reality does not exist.