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Yes but no one here said they wanted to guarantee an advantage to Republicans, unless that is what you are saying?
How does not voting for these two parties advantages one or the other?
First Past The Post voting means that if you have one right-wing candidate get 40% of the vote, and three left-wing candidates get 20% each, the right-winger wins.
It's not the system we want, but it's the system we've got, and until we have the power to change that, it's the rules we'll have to work with.
Enough of this bullshit, any party has the same chances of winning the vote don't trust the propaganda
Except that in reality, the party with the most money and familiarity and that aligns most closely with the majority of VOTING people tends to win in American elections. We only have two parties. Whether you like that or not, that's the reality. Everyone on the left who votes for a third party is literally throwing their vote away.
Until we have Ranked Choice voting from the local level to the executive level, we will never have more than two parties.
And since we only have two parties, those parties agree on 1 thing: Never let Ranked Choice Voting happen.