Voting is worse than that. It really doesn’t have a whole lot to do with selecting candidates. The political class has already done that well before the election. Voting is more about obtaining willing compliance from the people. Political psyops.
Its amazing what horrors people will endure so long as they have an infinitismally small voice in picking who gets to implement them.
Nothing new under the sun. Jefferson noted that fact in the Declaration:
all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
Nearly the entirety of the American people are accustomed to a tyranny that they lie to themselves does not exist. Abolishing those forms will require that which this people are not willing to risk.
Lives. Fortunes. Sacred Honor.
So into the long goodnight we go.. and now I know how it was that an entire population walked itself onto boxcars for camps.