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The actual idiots are the people calling them idiots. If the democratic party wants their votes then stop funding a genocide in Palestine. Neither party represents them or even tried to court them, so why should they vote for someone who only promises not to hurt them even more?
Americans are brainwashed by the two party system. It's always been "vote for the lesser evil'. It will continue to be that way until you do something about it.
I'm gonna be generous and assume you just don't know how the American system of voting actually works.
When it's down to the presidential election, you get two choices. You either vote for the major candidate you hate the least, or any other vote is numerically the same as voting for the one you hate the most. That's it. Once it's down to the General Election, it really is the lesser of two evils. Third party voting is just one more vote your "enemy" doesn't have to overcome.
If you actually want change, the time to push for it is in the primary election at the latest, and getting one of the two viable parties to replace their sitting president as candidate instead of voting them in for a second term is also just never going to happen.
This isn't complacency or comfort or laziness, this is math and the rules of the system.