All I’m saying is records don’t lie, politicians do. There’s no reason to believe a liar has changed. They will say what is popular. If you want more recent records, look at Biden’s VP pick. Harris, a state prosecutor of all things, opposed legalization of marijuana in her state. She co-authored an opposition letter to stop it’s passage, and was successful. 2016 it finally passed without her endorsement. Records show, in her 5 years, Harris sent 1,500 people to state prison (not just jail) for MariJuana related offenses and increased drug dealer convictions from 50% to 75%. Now she created the MORE act. Which I have to read still, but it could be a step in the right direction. 

when I see a police turn it’s lights on I don’t think, “oh good, they caught a bad guy.” Instead I think, “Oh those poor people are being extorted for money.”

Records do lie, if you are using them to assume the future. Harris is a good example of that.

Harris sponsored the Senate version of a bill which would deschedule marijuana and expunge federal convictions, came out in favor of legalization in 2018 and signed/sponsored several bills following through on that. She has repeatedly called for the legalization of marijuana and her record over the last several years is consistent with that position.

If you stood up in 2018 and said that Harris' past would predict her future, you would be dead wrong.

She changed sides after California turned against her. She switched sides on the issue because of popularity not conviction. Decriminalization is not a price of her moral fiber. She is just doing what politicians do, trying to be electable.

...yeah, exactly.

That was kind of my point. I honestly don't care if it is based on "conviction". Both Biden and Kamala changed positions on numerous issues. That's all that really matters. Like you said, politicians try to be electable (remember when I said early that changing positions was natural for politicians?). As such, I don't understand the assumption that they will sabotage that electability and go "ha, jk" as soon as they take power.

If that’s all you’re looking for, that’s great. That doesn’t do it for me. I want a leader who is dedicated to the principle of liberty, not control. A person who says what you want to hear just wants control. 

Primaries are for shooting your shot on the candidate you like. I took my shot on the candidate I liked, but what I got is Biden. Now I have two choices and only two choices, no matter how I feel about that: Biden and Trump.

That choice should be simple if your ideal candidate is someone to the left of Biden.

And if you decide not to make a choice, that isn't a noble act of rebellion or anything like that, it is simply you empowering the status quo.

I am voting, not for the red/blue party. 

Voting third party is functionally no different than not voting (assuming you are in a state where your vote matters).

If you spend your vote on a candidate who truly has the nation’s best interest in mind, who will actively bring real, positive, Constitutional change, and who adequately represents the ideals for which you stand, then you have not wasted your vote but rather invested it. I have no common ground with Biden or Trump, that’d be the real wasted vote imo. Edit: The binary choice wants to fight endless wars, make decisions for me, and increase spending.