Just because you don’t put much weight on what america and by extension its citizens is participating in

I do put weight on it. I simply ascribe that weight to their lifelong careers rather than their fleeting political selections.

The argument that if a vote doesnt end up going to one of the two most likely candidates, that its the same as going to one of them anyways makes no sense.

I agree. But then I’d argue individual votes, even whole elections, don’t matter much in a heavily privatized economy.