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The second and third absolutely apply to me, but since my vote doesn't matter anyway, I just vote for a third party that I believe in. The expected winner will pretty much always win my state by 15-20 percentage points, and all third party candidates combined are something like 5%, so even if nobody voted for spoilers in my state, the outcome wouldn't change.
There are only a handful of states where your vote for President actually matters, and only a handful more where it might matter if you got literally all third party voters to oppose the expected winner.
We simply need more people to vote, and we need to fix our voting system so the rest of the country feels like voting matters. And I don't think we even need to throw out the electoral college, just throw out first past the post and we could get some interesting upsets.