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There is no mindset keeping people from voting third party. It's impossible for anything but a two party system to result from a First Past the Post system. It's not a bug, as they say, it's a feature.
There is no momentum, it will always fail. Go to Wikipedia and look up the article "Political Parties in the United States". They have a chart showing the popular vote break down going back to Washington. Check out 232 years of history telling you how ineffective and useless it is to vote 3rd party in our current system.
You have to get rid of the Electoral College and FPTP FIRST, before a vote for an alternate candidate will ever have any meaning. This isn't my opinion. It's reality, and it's time you joined it.
You don't need to worry about me messing up your two party system.
We have similar bullshit in my country.
And I'm sorry that you believe this. Truly I am.