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You're NEVER going to get a good option. You vote for the least-worse. Always -- lather, rinse, repeat.
I'm not sure how this is confusing. Show up at the polling station, with some idea of each loser's plan, and pick the one who can pull off the most of a decent plan -- or, said a different way, whoever will suck the least.
That is the entire problem and telling people "Thats just the way it is, deal with it" is not going to solve it. Our "democratic" system is completely broken, we are given the illusion of choice when in reality all candidates are preselected and paraded in front of the public as if they have our best interests at heart, when in reality they all have the same mandate from their corporate overlords. The US is a corporatocracy masquerading as a democracy, we as ordinary citizens have no real say in the matter. That needs to change, full stop!
America's system of voting "first past the post" ensures that one of the top two candidates will win. It pretty much guarantees a two-party system will win.
So, the strategy would be:
Hope this helps.
You don't even have to oppose the two party system to support ranked choice. I like ranked choice, especially for state reps/senators, and I'm very pro two-party system.
I know it opens the door to other parties I don't necessarily want to exist, but it's just a good idea full stop.
It's not a broken system when the most popular person wins. No one was preselected.
A majority of people think Biden is in their best interest.
If you want things to change, you have to accept that it's rarely going to be a sudden, profound moment. It's small steps adding up over time. If people aren't willing to take the small steps, just because they're not big steps, then we'll all soon find ourselves pulled backwards through our own apathy.
Biden was literally my favorite in the primaries. I got my first pick as President.
Frankly I think if people wanted some wacky, off the wall, Williamson-style candidate, they're too dumb to try to reason with so their votes really just should be assumed not to happen