If you can’t leverage an action to get something, what good is that action? How valuable is it if you gain nothing from withholding it?

If the president won’t change to get votes, then why bother voting for them at all?

Why engage with the electoral system if your only viable choice is to vote one party?

How is this system any good if a single election can destroy democracy forever? And finally, why would anybody say that this is a good system worth defending?