Although I will respect whatever choice you make when you vote, I would like to quote the immortal: "a vote for the lesser of two evils is still a choice for evil." So I am proud to say that I did not vote at all during the election, and I probably won't vote in this next one either. Not until this whole two party gang system goes the way of the dinosaurs.
You may as well say that choosing Coke over Pepsi when you are thirsty is a choice between 2 evils - and seeing one as lesser depends only on one's level of desperation for hydration.
The two party system will not go away unless those who are seriously over it vote. Okay, I live in a country where it is compulsory to turn up on polling day and have your name ticked off on the register. Voting isn't compulsory, turning up is. Our citizens still obediently mostly go for Tweedledum or Tweedledee with predictable reliability. But more are voting independent, and more are voting dickhead. The proposition that the balance of power remains with evil A or evil B no longer holds. The pity is that the balance of power can rest with complete clods. Still, it putting the wind up the major parties.
The problem with wishing things might go the way of the dinosaurs is that what came next was no more exciting and enticing. We don't get happy vacuums. We get more of the same - only mammal rather than dinosaur. Disengagement isn't the solution.
Have voted Green for years - not because I like them (I think they are idiots), but because I am forlornly hoping that they might get beyond being just a repository for pissed off Labor voters and actually formulate a policy agenda that might draw genuine attention. That's a hopeless case and I am now voting Independent.
If the disaffected turned out in the USA and actually voted you might disrupt the BAU fiasco. If you don't, you won't. Obama made it very plain that he needed the pressure of an electorate to get the changes it wanted. And what happened? Come the mid-terms, the people who celebrated his election stayed at home and the Dems lost power. That was dumb and petty and stupid and naive.
Same thing happened to Trump (mercifully). If you are smart you don't vote in a President because you like his agenda and then crap on his power base in the mid-terms. That's dumb politics. I live in a country with a different kind of stupidity, but our system makes it possible for a sufficient number of pissed off voters to create real headaches. That's not the case in the USA. You have to figure a better way of voting AND driving change.
Years ago I listened to a raging speech by the uber salesman, Zig Ziglar, who essentially said that (and I paraphrase for context)"if you don't vote you lose your griping rights'.
Let me be clear here. I am a dedicated exponent of what I call 'Inactivism' - non-participation. There are a lot of things we should not do in order to drive change. Voting ain't one of them. Don't participate in the idiotic BS that passes for a campaign by all means. But vote - with intent and vision. You want to break up the present 2 party circus? Vote for a disrupter. It will be a long time before they are at risk of winning. and by then there may be good candidates.
There is no point in being an electoral celibate and bitching about the bastard children the system produces. We don't seriously take sex education from nuns or racial cultural awareness from a white guy.
If you don't vote you don't have skin in the game., Try it and see the difference - its about influence, not results.