The Democratic Party have been the only party to drive positive change in this country. Positive social change. Positive economic change. Positive international change. Are they perfect? No - there is no perfect system. Chasing perfection is a fools errand.
To think that voting is the least powerful of Democratic expression is (I believe to be) an absurd statement. Local elections matter. Country elections matter. You're not changing the system from the outside, a system that's ran ~250 years. There's no hope of a civil war beating the U.S. Military Complex. What will happen instead, just like the CIA did/does, is 3rd parties will join in to continue the fighting for their own gain.
The only change to the U.S. system so that the least amount of people die should have come from within.
Also, If they're all fascists, and we literally have a choice between the fascist who at least has a backing party history of social and economic growth vs one whose going to try to become a defacto ruler; the choice should have been obvious.
The problems are ours and ours alone.
Then we are ultimately fucked. Corporate internet is programming masses due to being absolutely unregulated.
The Democrats can’t save us.
There's no change, no movement without leadership and organization. Between the 2 parties, the better leadership comes from the Democratic Party. The better organization comes from the Democratic Party. Until a 3rd party finds leadership, finds the organization to make the push for change, then they are it. Hopefully the future has that, but the past election was between what we're seeing now and what could have been.