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Unsupporting the red and blue party will shift the power somewhere else from the same two parties that have been ruling for a century. The only thing preventing someone else from winning is the narrative that a third party can never win. The same narrative continues to be told election after election decade after decade, it's not so hard to see how it's been used by the government to never really change administration and cycle in power the red and blue party.
Let's pretend for a second the largest third parties were viable. That leaves us a brain worm antivaxxer, an anarchocapitalist, and a Russian asset. Are any of those really better?
They aint gonna give you a straight answer assuming they will answer at all, cause they are lying about their reasons either to you and/or themselves. But yeah even including third parties the Dems are generally the best, Democratic Socialists and localised parties not withstanding since they generally caucus with the Dems nationally.
Why are you mistalking about others? talk for yourself
US government is supporting a genocide, ramping up WW3 and entrusting elon musk the military space sector. I think it's going to take anyone some serious effort to make it worst than that.