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If you voted third party, you voted for Trump.
That's not how any of this works. In many states in the USA, your votes for President are for entertainment purposes only; with our electoral college you can actually lose the popular vote and still win the election.
More and more people are leaving the major parties every day, voters are 40% independent with Ds and Rs at 30% each. I predict that the major parties will continue to lose voters every year, and anti-incumbent voters will increase.
That's exactly how it works in a 2 party system. Voting for a 3rd party is throwing away your vote, no matter how you try to spin it.
Eh, if your state goes 70% R and has for the last 50 years, there's not much you can do. Unless there's a big movement, 100% of those votes go to R. Getting better local representation might be more worth it.
It's a really shitty system that promotes really shitty incentives, and has even shittier outcomes. I generally advocate for strategic voting, but in some places your vote literally doesn't matter.