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Working to split the vote against Harris is effectively a vote for Trump and for fascism.
third party voters are not working to "split the vote", they are voting for their preferred candidate.
also known as "voting" in healthy democracies.
and no, a vote for a different candidate is not a vote for Trump, that is fundamentally inaccurate fear-based alarmism.
it's okay that you're afraid, but that's no reason to dismantle democracy.
I really want this to be true, and I used to believe it, but our voting system is convoluted with a winner-takes-all mechanism. It isn't a direct democracy where all votes are equal and it's naive to ignore our elector-based system that encourages total domination of the big boys over everyone else.
Give me ranked choice voting and I'll vote for my actual preferred candidate. Otherwise, I have to vote for who can actually have a chance to win.
duverger has nothing to do with the electoral college. this is a Gish gallop