Your thinking:
>> “I’ll-just-vote-for-some-obscure-third-party” type of people, then you are ceding your voice and you are ceding your decision to someone else, and you are removing yourself from the debate.
Is nonsense.
My voice and my decision is mine to make. YOU are the one advocating that your voice and your decision must be ceded to others, that your voice and your decision only matters if others share it.
Don’t be a lemming.
So you think that a decision to “not vote” is a vote.
You make no sense to me.
That kind of thinking is why Romney lost to Obama in 2012.