We already know that the problem is First Past The Post (FPTP) voting. Literally everyone qualified to hold office in the USA knows it. But would you vote for someone who's incompetent at best, making things only slightly worse for 4 years?

Every election, the answer is a resounding yes. Vote for the lesser evil, and then we'll rely entirely on direct action between elections, like strikes.

Then the lesser evils shut down a badly needed rail strike, at a time when that could have been the start of something big.

So you tell me what you'd do, I'm genuinely curious.

Even in countries where it's undoubtedly a LOT better like Germany, I vote purely strategically. No super small parties that won't make it into parliament cause that vote would be wasted. Stuff like that. And I would absolutely vote for the conservatives to prevent the fascists. Basically, don't take it for granted and try to get the most out of it every time.

non-US people try not to blame US people for their own oppression challenge (impossible) (it happens every thread)

This is like a teenager getting all upset that the family can't go on a trip because money is tight and saying it's not faaaaaaaaaiiir.

Yes, powerful people are trying to do evil with the levers of government. There are people who wake up all day every day and try to prevent them, or to make good things happen anyway, with varying levels of success. Just getting all whiny about it because everything's not automatic or already fixed for you, and you have to either do what you can within the system or work for change outside the system or else get used to things being shitty (and with Trump maybe get exponentially worse), shows a lack of understanding of how the world works.