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What's the answer then? Because it can't just be finding a 3rd party president and hoping he gets enough votes from both sides. They would just steal the election from them like they did Gore. And even if they did win, the president is mostly just a figurehead to distract the population. The real answer would be starting a grassroots 3rd party and winning elections starting at the school department and selectman and working your way up... but it's so easy for those things to be co-opted.
We need election reform. But before anything can be done, people need to get out of their echo chambers and stop denying that "both sides" people exist. Stop taking for granted that everything your chosen team does is 100% right. Start looking at your own side critically. As it is now, the majority of the population is convinced that the other half of the population is a bunch of fascist bootlickers and refuses to listen to anything they have to say, and they take for granted that their side is the only correct choice. Most people are actually pretty purple but won't admit it.