Really I'm not much of the "if you don't vote, don't complain" type. I was replying to another post that said "if you don't vote, don't bitch and moan if someone horrible becomes President" I was trying to point out how voting duopoly (Dem or Rep) guarantees horrible. So continuing to vote for them continues it.

And I think voting 3rd party probably sends a protest message much better than not voting (but this has a lot of assumptions, it assumes the voting machines aren't hacked for instance. I mean suppose a 3rd party candidate was winning, would Diebold switch all the votes anyway, voting having become nothing but legitimization even though the people were actually voting 3rd party? If one was convinced that was true, not voting makes more sense). Voting is by paper ballot here which makes me think it's less manipulated, but open primaries in this state eliminate most 3rd parties from the general election anyway, except for things like the Presidency.