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Fair, I see a lot of Europeans on Lemmy so that tends to be where my brain goes for non-US on here.
I get real irate about the "must vote dem or you'll never get third party" because its gaslighting. No matter which election, what year of the cycle, there is no time in no way that libs will entertain the idea of a 3rd party. Voting dem only rewards them for moving right, and they use it as justification to sprint even further. Hell, half of Kamala's campaign has been "I'm rolling with republicans."
Every action the DNC takes is to keep power isolated to the chosen establishment. Kamala recently paid lip service to the need for aid in Gaza and a hold on weapons to Israel, then sent somebody out to do stump speeches assuring that policy opinion hasn't changed, she's still all in on Israel, and she was just trying to shut up progressives.
This isn't a sudden happenstance, its been a long road leading to this, and Democrats are actively complicit - Fascism is just the end game of capitalism. Hell, Musk just sued an advertiser into paying him for ads. Freedom!
I honestly fully sympathize with you. We have the same thing here. "Vote ABC - Anything But Conservative", but actually that means just vote Liberal. And now that the Liberal party is floundering, I don't think Liberals will be singing the same tune to strategically vote NDP (labour/social democrat). They'd rather burn the country to the ground, than to give anyone even a hair's width left of centre any power.
Normally I'd agree with you, but if you guys get Trump, he's going to do everything in his power to not leave after 4 years, 8 years, etc. You might not have the opportunity to vote 3rd party until he keels over, and he's going to make that time hell for any non-white non-cis-male non-red-hat-wearer.