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Yes, lesser of two evils. It's a shitty choice, but there's still a right answer.
If you're charismatic, energetic, influential, and invincible enough, please create and push for a better third option.
Yeah but making a third option viable is something that will take way too long, unless one of the parties completely implodes.
Our electoral process itself only allows for two viable and diametrically opposed parties.
Any third party who even gets on the board in a general election will, most likely, ensure that they and the major party they are most closely aligned with, will lose, due to the spoiler effect.
If anything, a "successful" third party (that is, one that gets more than single digits in a general election" may help to shift the closest-aligned major parties direction...but that will only result in the opposing party moving further in the opposite direction to maintain equilibrium.
Without a good spoiler though...the loser moves closer towards the winner, and the winner still moves further away.
And here's the kicker...the way to change it is through the elected officials, who are incentivized to keep the system (which works in their favor) as-is.