Day one: "I will frown at you, he will slap you, and this third guy over there no one else will vote for will smile at you. But no one will vote for the smiler except you, and half of the people will vote for the slapper because they are petty and don't like you."

Who do you vote for?

Trick question, because you vote for the smiler in the primary between him and the frowner, and vote for the winner in the general election. Three-way votes get you the third best option, like Bill Clinton. Primary votes are how the soul of a party is decided and how both Trump and AOC were elected. If Trump ran as third party he would handed the election to Hillary instead of Jeb or whoever had the Republican nomination.

The two-party system is basically just a runoff election at this point, the primaries are the real votes that change the outcome.

Day one: "I will frown at you, he will slap you, and this third guy over there no one else will vote for will smile at you. But no one will vote for the smiler except you, and half of the people will vote for the slapper because they are petty and don't like you."

Who do you vote for?

Trick question, because you vote for the smiler in the primary, and vote for either the frowner or the smiler in the election. Three-way votes get you the third best option, like Bill Clinton. Primary votes are how the soul of a party is decided and how both Trump and AOC were elected. If Trump ran as third party he would handed the election to Hillary instead of Jeb or whoever had the Republican nomination.

The two-party system is basically just a runoff election at this point, the primaries are the real votes that change the outcome.