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Independents don't have a chance regardless. Has nothing to do with their platform or how many people are voting...our voting system itself means voting for a third party will have the net effect of not supporting the primary party more closely aligned with your beliefs, which in turn is indirectly supporting the primary party least aligned with your belief. The same can be said of voter abstinence.
This is basic game theory stuff. Going for a third party in a major election because they are more directly aligned with you, individually, is ultimately letting perfect be the enemy of good. And personally, I think it's a bit arrogant to think any party holding no other federal office, and barely any state offices, will jettison directly to POTUS. It's almost like they know they exist solely to facilitate the spoiler effect.
I don't actually want people to vote third party here. But voting anything is better than not voting