This is the way, at least until we get rid of First Past the Post and other Ordinal voting systems.

Score, STAR, or Approval would all make primaries unnecessary, and also reward people for honestly voting their preferences. Which is sort of why there's so much pushback against them.

The time to argue and complain about candidates is during the primaries. When a candidate for a party has been chosen you vote with the party. Out system is the way it is and no amount of protest votes are going to fix it. Do not vote 3rd party in the general election.

Lemmy users in socialism.ml actually define Putin as progressive (I wish I was joking)

EDIT: look at them all brigading me below. PUTIN SUCKS and North Korea is an authoritarian shithole!