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"your vote essentially has no impact on what the government chooses to do"
Don't want you to strain yourself reading your own directly previous comment that you then contradicted in the subsequent paragraph.
I also went on to explain why just because you don't choose what the government does, doesn't mean your vote is irrelevant.
It's also not me making that claim It's Princeton University that had a particularly well cited study showing that your vote actually does not influence the policy decisions of lawmakers.
Your vote is about preventing the creation of policy that is even worse. It's not about enabling the creation of policy that is good. We are not at the phase of our relationship with our government where we can make them do good things. If we don't keep working towards that we will backslide into fascism.
You have the wrong expectations if you think your vote is going to tell the government what to do. We're just not there yet. You still have to vote If you'd like to get there one day.
"Well then it's a good thing I never asserted that".
Nobody has these expectations you are talking about except for you.
If you were just going to agree with what I'm saying, you can just type "yea".
You can save all that time you spent splitting hairs.