Probably, but the person I was responding to said:

In that system, people have absolutely no power other than to feel good about themselves while having a confused look on their face.

And I was pointing out that it’s not that their vote won’t be counted, it’s just that it is balanced by a nearly equal and opposite force on the other side. But… that’s just how “democracy” works?

We saw an example of that two elections ago, when people did protest voting by putting them into third-party candidates, which allowed Clinton to lose and thereby Trump to “win”. Those votes were counted, and if they had been put towards opposing the greater evil, really would have kept Trump from winning that election.

That shows that votes, far from having “absolutely no power”, are actually EXTREMELY powerful! i.e. they are “necessary”, even though they are not “sufficient”. In fact, making people think that their votes don’t matter is one tactic that Republicans use to try to “win” - but just b/c they say that, does not make it TRUE!:-(

I did say that I support changing the form of democracy in the USA. I am being pedantic in saying that we have a democracy though, b/c I feel like that detail matters. i.e. don’t just vote, but DO vote!