Once again, you're psychobabbling me instead of responding to the institutional reality. It's not a matter of faith or lack thereof.

First past the post electoral systems without ranked choice voting or multi-member districts are an institutional strait jacket for third parties unless, like the SNP in Scotland or the UDP in Northern Ireland, they're nationalist parties that can gain a plurality of votes in a specific district.

Only ranked choice voting and multi-member districts with proportional representation can break the polarizing stranglehold of the two major parties worsened by partisan gerrymandering. Call it a political anti-trust measure designed to break an oligopoly. But if you prefer a third party and voting for Nader and Jill Stein, that's true reality-denying faith-based politics that will give us a democracy-terminal second Trump presidency more fascistic than the first one.