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Then give me one. I haven't seen these posts and you say they're here, show me please.
Here's one. It took me longer to type the search query than to find a relevant article from the search results.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/12/3/us-muslims-pledge-to-ditch-biden-in-2024-over-his-stance-on-israel-gaza-war
For the primary, sure that makes sense to try and enact change, but in the general election a vote for anyone other than Biden is the same as a vote for Trump.
I wanted to remain neutral when linking the article, but that's my take as well.
While I hate that people weaponize the saying "voting for an independent party is throwing away your vote" as a way to pressure others into voting for their preferred party, the logic behind it is not wrong. It would take a substantial amount of organization and commitment to make a third party viable. Considering that, any vote that isn't for Biden is effectively a vote for Trump.
That's the thing, FPTP doesn't allow that. It doesn't "make a third party viable" even if you get all the votes needed. It's "usurp one of the two parties" instead, as whichever party failed to conquer the contender gets subsumed by them, if their ideologies are in any way compatible.