With all due respect, please articulate what your vote will do. What a non-determinative embrace of an also-ran named Johnson will contribute to improving your life, your family's and friends, and/or make the country and culture better, safer, more egalitarian? What beyond the moment of pulling the lever and achieving the instant gratification of refuting a two-party system? I think that's what many of us who've seen the Andersons, Poirots and Naders et al fly under the radar, draw attention and disappear, want to know. Third party votes self-present as a deeply personal moral decision; but if withholding a vote that blocks a fascist who could stack SCOTUS, roll back reproductive, health care and other hard-won rights isn't an option, how does your moral compass -- serving more than the immediacy of a protest vote -- serve you?
"I'm a comedian, but in my spare time, things bother me." Garry Shandling