I tried to post a screenshot of the following Jill Stein tweet: "Elite democrats have resigned themselves to biden as the candidate and losing to Trump. The democratic party has proven itself unfit to serve." 

I think the DNC is full of cowards so I agree with her. I'm also kind of confused as to why third party candidates aren't more discussed this year since the DNC is so weak and impotent. I think the youth have seen that they're fraudulent too, and have pulled their card. It just seems like younger voters are looking hard for an alternative to the DNC as a whole. Jill is on the ballot in all 50 states. Claudia is on enough of them to have a path to a win as well. Why aren't we just going for broke and thrusting ourselves full force behind a REAL left leaning leader? Please help me understand this. I don't vote for people, I vote for principles and policies. I do not vote AGAINST people, I vote FOR what aligns with my values. I think younger people are tired of this rigged two party shit. I'm sick of people telling me that a situation where I'm voting "against fascism" instead of "for socialism" is an OKAY situation. Can't WE all just decide to walk away from these cowardly DNC clowns? Please talk me off the ledge here.
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It's because the United States uses first past the post voting. 

This voting system makes voting third party not viable. 

Eg.

Say the following happens. 

Republican/conservative gets 35% 

Democrat gets 33%

Leftist gets 32%

(In this situation the 32% of leftists that voted for the leftist candidate effectively had no effect on the election. It would be the exact same as if they didn't vote at all) 

theoretically the Democrat and the leftist candidate share more in common and together they would have represented 65% of the electorate but because they split votes between them the conservative gets all of the political power.

65% of the electorate in this scenario gets their worst possible outcome simply because they split their votes.

The winner of that states electoral votes or that congressional district will be the Republican.

In the first past the post voting system third parties just become spoilers and pull votes from the party they are ideologically close to

With a first pass to post voting system you logically have to organize into two parties.
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I see the democrats as such losers at this point I can’t imagine them even pulling 33%. That seems like a wildly high estimate
user
I think you’re wildly underestimating the amount of people who either still like Biden or are willing to hold their nose to vote against another Trump presidency.
assistant