You're right
After the 2000 presidential elections, I was so bummed out at the reports of tens of thousands of votes being tossed away, etc etc etc, that I was thinking, what's the use? If all those people got up in the morning, went to the voting place, voted, then went to work - they did the right thing; throwing away their ballots was the wrong thing.
The only thing this administration understands is numbers, that's why people must vote. Enough votes, and you win. (Gore notwithstanding.)
And so I'll be voting again, trying to make a change.
"What can they do
to you? Whatever they want.
[...]
They can do anything
you can't stop them
from doing.
[...]
A hundred (people) fill a hall.
A thousand have solidarity and your own newsletter;
ten thousand, power and your own paper;
a hundred thousand, your own media;
ten million, your own country.
It goes on one at a time,
it starts when you care
to act,
[...]
"The Low Road" by Marge Piercy
