It’s so funny that in a non-election year you can maybe get (a shrinking minority of) liberals to recognize the anti-democratic nature of gerrymandering and the electoral college, but every four years they’ll use examples of that anti-democracy to berate you for choosing to vote for a third party.
The state I live in has gone for the Republican in 9 out of the last 12 elections, and the margin has gotten bigger every year since 2000. The bubble I circle on the top of the ballot is literally irrelevant to the outcome of the election, and that’s ON PURPOSE. I know I’m preaching to the choir here, but