It's not that I cannot decide which is worse, it's that I don't want to vote for either of them. I gave Biden the benefit of the doubt in 2020, when he said he'd be a one-term "caretaker at best" and let BOTH parties move beyond Donald Trump. But Biden's fully caught up in the reality show, and wants to face Trump again in the rematch, even at the expense of keeping the Dems' new generational stars (not to mention the GOP's) from rising.
So if you ask what "something else" is motivating me, it's that I think the parties have to break the mutual death embrace they've got the country caught up in. Biden/Trump has cheated both parties, and their voters, of new leadership and a chance at conciliation. Biden/Trump allows both parties to paint the other not as a mere adversary (and God forbid not as the old school notion of a loyal opposition), but as an existential threat.
That's nonsense. Biden isn't the worst President in our history, as Trump howls, nor is Trump the end of democracy as we know it, as Biden contends. The problem is both parties are caught up in Trump's vision of the conflict, and the Dems' cartoon response to it.
I don't choose to enable this crap again this year. I don't think you should either, because I think a message of "no thanks" from voters on both sides will ultimately make for a better brand of politics, and a better perception of public service. And with that, all I will say is that if you have 20 minutes, the following video captures Chase Oliver's basic stump speech, given in Iowa recently. He's the new candidate for President of the LIbertarian Party, already on enough state ballots to theoretically win the White House.
I like him a lot. Go ahead and feed the candidate your party proffers, but if you can spare 20 minutes you'll get a better understanding of why, this year, I will not.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRytzx-0dfc