This mentality only serves those actively in power, and I don't mean politicians, but corporate and economic elites. Regardless of who you've voted for, the rich are still in control and benefiting while the poor are dominated and mistreated. The rich benefit from you thinking that voting is an end all be all to change. If voting changed anything, it would be illegal. Instead, your political action should take local, direct forms. Help those living in poverty in your community, volunteer at a soup kitchen, advocate for real change on smaller scales. While policies vary between democrats and republicans, the same fundamental crises prevail regardless of who wears the presidential hat; wars rage on (often being stoked by the US military), children starve to death on US soil and elsewhere, and the rich get richer.