I refuse to vote for either corrupt party if their 'candidates' are as bad as the last cycle, and probably everyone on this forum has a similar view. The lesser of 2 evils only works when you have no good options- very sad indeed.
Unfortunately, refusing to vote doesn't help matters either. It might send a message, but one that apparently nobody cares about. Both major "parties" are terribly corrupt. Although, I will still vote for the lesser of two evils, which is mostly the party that believes in less spending, less debt, less taxes, and less government. Everything is relative since neither will make major progress in that direction, although one tends to more than the other.
What we need are additional parties and independents. That will FORCE the major parties to be responsive, get new blood in the power mix, prevent spoilers, give voters more choice, and help stop "single issue" campaigns. But our system of "first past the post" (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-past-the-post_voting ) makes it all but impossible due to a huge "spoiler effect" (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoiler_effect ). The only solution is to change the WAY we vote (for everything- primaries, legislative branch, executive branch, State and Federal), by moving to some form of ranked voting system (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranked_voting ). Unfortunately:
1) Such change is difficult.
2) Such change costs money.
3) Changing to a ranked system absolutely does not benefit either major party, so they will do anything they can to trash or prevent the idea from spreading.
On the plus side, it doesn't have to be an all or nothing situation since States control how voting is performed for/by their State, they have the individual power to do something without having to drag the rest of the country along. Right now, Maine is the ONLY State to do so, (although some localities throughout the nation do use it) and it is a major event:
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/04/ranked-choice-voting-maine/557669/But still, it is only for State elections, not for their Federal ones. But it is a start. One that needs to spread.
http://www.fairvote.org/