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voting can net local communities some gain. the corrupt nature of larger politics makes it hard to get substantial change tho. presidents don't impact much change alone. chesa boudin, the recently ousted sanfran d.a. was making a lot of healthy changes and got booted by larger powers. jackson mississippi has had at least some success with overtaking corrupt politics, but only to be met with oversight bribes for the recent battle to fix their water supplies, amongst other attacks by larger governatorial forces. another example is chicago fighting to remove corrupt judges, only to be met with redistricting and redlining of community boundaries, and fraudulent voting practices with poor excuses from the state
average voters in this country have no say in foreign policy
it's not an easy yes or no, what matters is that we're collectively building up duel power as a part of a larger /for the people/ strategy that stops relying on corportaist leeches and their super pac funded elites. not an easy thing to do considering the extremely violent nature of politics and policing in this country. the forces against forwardness, and their strategies, at least make themselves evident in the struggle.
the name of the game right now is more militant organizing, and continue building up the new labor movement as much as possible. join political organizations, frso/psl. get involved locally first, where people can actually influence change
in one day i manmages to bbq for my family, invite community, and derail nazis lmao