I voted third party for 30 years straight. That all ended with Trump. If he wins, democracy is dead in the USA. There's no coming back from that. I was never a "lesser of two evils" guy, but faced with the option of living in a fascist dictatorship, you'd better believe I am now.

And as for Biden, he was my least favorite democratic candidate, but now that he's in office, I'd say he's been one of the most effective presidents we've had in decades. Student loan relief, fighting to reduce child poverty, and doing a half decent job of keeping WWIII at bay in Ukraine. I think a Cold War era president which will bend to the workers movement and social democracy is about as good as it's going to get.

I have no regrets voting for a major party candidate in this election whatsoever.

But if your friends are Trump supporters, by all means, be my guest.

I'd much rather spend my energy doing something useful like talking to them about the importance of pushing for ranked choice voting.

Not a shower thought.

We need to get people back into talking about politics that don't involve Trump or Biden

We need to stop assuming everyone on the internet is from USA

I agree, but evidently you need to put local in bold because it's never what people are thinking about in these nonlocal forums. But that's where third parties will come from unless it's some celebrity case, who will most likely coopt an existing party, resulting in the same two party system and a dramatically shifted politics that leaves half the country without ideological representation.