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There are always more than two candidates. Don't let the FUD scare you. Your vote, Your choice, Your voice.
My wife always gets mad at me when I leave to buy groceries and come back with lotto tickets instead. No matter how often I explain that if we win the lottery, we'll be able to buy even more groceries than we could have with the money I spent on the tickets she's pissed off the kids are hungry now. I'm glad you get where I'm coming from.
I sincerely hope that the US one day gets preferential voting, and no longer had to pick between two shitty options.
Now just imagine if your grocery choices were either a rock or a pile of poo. Then the lottery is the ticket.
There's more than two candidates, but never more than two viable candidates. In a FPTP system, there's no difference between voting third-party and not voting.
If you want change, use the other 1,458 days of the election cycle to push for it - election day is for keeping the fascists out until there's a viable better alternative available.
That, and there's the vote for your congresspeople, your state, local elections, etc. You should always be voting in those, too. Its very important on the micro and macro levels.