Disenfranchising the vast majority of people by making them choose between two groups that won't represent their interests to rule over them didn't help matters.

Nor did Democrats putting the spotlight on the far right, and so giving them a substantial boost, to try to intimidate people into supporting them, all whilst crushing any attempt at a move left whenever they get the opportunity.

Aggressively passing blame onto individuals and ignoring the obvious systems at work will never fix anything. You aren't more responsible or even doing anything productive here, you are just showing that you are either emotionally invested in a failed system or scared of change.

Voting is not enough, it never was.

This is the same conversation I had countless times in the first Trump presidency, and how if [exactly what ended up happening when the Democrats got back in] happened it would be straight back to him or something worse. Nobody listened then either, and here we are.

You are attacking a strawman, I specifically said we should work not to cede power to Trump et al, you should always deal with the "what" of the problem, but if you don't deal with the "why" the same or another "what" will always come along.

If this was all just something that popped up out of nowhere for one election I would agree with you, but this is the very loudly and repeatedly predicted (and roundly ignored) cumulative effect of decades of elections.

I am just begging you to stop making the same mistake over and over and over again.

That would be me. Why? There is a non-uniformed paramilitary force randomly arresting and killing unarmed US citizens in the streets for the last year. There have been multiple reports that this force will be tasked to “ensure security” around polling places.