With all due respect, (and that is great) the net result not voting for one is a de facto vote for the other. A vote represents applying a minute but potentially significant few electrons to a current passing through a circuit which lights up green for one of two candidates, not three, not four, not five - two. Voltage applied to any other circuit goes to ground and is swallowed up by the universe as if it had never been. Other than the way it makes people feel when they do it and afterward, there is zero effect of a third party vote. Every election cycle one may hear the same claims made by people who choose to waste their voting power, and every time the proof that it is wasted is renewed. Ross Perot had the largest number of votes of any third party candidate in modern history and you can see how that affected the world after - aside from arguably helping to get Bill Clinton elected and setting up his bitch to be president, the effect of a vote for Ross Perot was absolute zero.
To me the only waste of voting power is to vote for someone I consider completely unfit for the position. With that in mind, I cannot vote for either the Republican or the Democrat candidate for president. I'm not charging the batteries of evil to refuse to send electrons their way.
The net result of not voting for either one is a de facto repudiation of a broken system, a refusal to continue to participate in a false dichotomy choice, made even more false by the convergent evolution of the candidates' basic philosophies and contempt for the very foundation of this Republic. If you wish to lend legitimacy to a broken system, that is your Right. It is my Right to withhold my fundamental consent as one who would be governed by that system should it prevail with the electorate--which it will do, so long as too few have the courage to stand up and express their dissent. You claim I would enable the person who is running against your candidate, that my vote otherwise would be the problem, yet you and others like you, for whatever reason or motivation are voting to support the continued dysfunction of the Federal Leviathan, to the detriment of the Republic and all who are in it. You and your vote are the problem, not me and mine.
