I seriously don't understand voting for some one you know can't win.
I can't understand voting for someone you know is going to be shit, and screw you over, and not do their job properly and not represent the people they're supposed to represent.
Your attitude is the very attitude the two main parties encourage.
I haven't seen a third party candidate who had a chance of winning, but I do see one candidate being better than the other in terms of supporting my positions on Issue. I agreed with Trump on many issues and Hillary didn't have positions on most issues, so it was an easy decision. As you grow up, much of life becomes about compromises. Most people don't get the job they really want, earn as much as they really want, marry the woman they really would have wanted to marry or have children who are as perfect as they would have liked, but they are at peace with this because they know they did the best they could have, so I don't look for emotional fulfillment when I vote for president, I just look the the best candidate who has a chance to win the election.
Well, in Germany people get to choose the candidate, or better said the political party who will represent them the best in office.
In the US you get to choose the least crap choice between the two political parties.
Generally the US system is negative voting.
You get Trump and you get Hillary and you go "Which one would I hate to see in power?" and then you vote.
And then you realize that if you're not in one of 12 states, it doesn't matter who you voted for anyway.
Look at how many votes didn't matter.
States that matter, where really you going out and voting could decide the election.
Michigan, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Florida, Minnesota, Nevada, Arizona, North Carolina, Colorado, Iowa and Ohio.
If you're not in any of these states, it doesn't really matter.
In the other states, you're looking at millions and millions of votes that simply go and get wasted.
Republicans in California, Democrats in Texas. Why do they bother? Their vote doesn't matter. They don't get a say in the electoral process.
They count the votes, they tell you "this person got this many votes" and it doesn't matter.