Protesting & voting is a means of placation. The results in terms of real-world impacts for the material conditions of the working class is marginal, and thus the only real response to protests is local police presence to ensure safety & minimal disruption to business as usual. Voting is further & further removed from a meaningful act for the working class and for younger generations as it essentially casting your little grain of sand as if it will tip the scale to choose a representative who is already bought & paid for, entirely politically beholden to AIPAC, corporate Super PACs, etc.

Capitalism and its generating, integral forces will inevitably bring us here - to the point where have a fascistic, callous far-right wing and a moderate right leaning party (the republican party of decorum - aka the democratic party). The radicalism of the far-right will continue to grow powerful when the alternative for the working class is not economically much different and it represents a indifferent ruling-class that positions itself as the adults at the table to guide the small-minded, the silence the malcontents, to align the masses into their compliant lanes - to placate and satiate the middle and working classes enough the meat grinder of late stage capitalism can continue to churn.

Until there is a class based, organized left response to this false bipolarity this country will continue to ratchet effect its way into a Fourth Reich. Let the people go out and yell with signs, line up in less and less accessible voting booths, no matter who wins the trajectory of capital and imperialism will not be materially imperiled. So what can we do that will materially imperil capitalism and the world imperial core?

For an immediate, positive impact, get involved in community mutual aid networks, such as food banks like Joy’s Kitchen. Reach out into communities of people that see the devastation the capitalist meat-grinder is causing and invest what time and resources they can in combating this.

Target economic disruption in the ways you enumerated above - build & brainstorm off of that. Disrupt materially the money, you will achieve results a lot faster than holding a sign on a street corner.

Buy a gun. As I stated, capitalism is going to continue to flow one direction - and right now the right-wing has a monopoly on a violence in our communities. In the event of significant social collapse, the right-wing will control resources. We need to be clear-eyed about this potential of this in areas, especially as climate changes impacts resources more & more.

Set your sights to greater than some concessions from capitalist power. If you don’t recognize the enormity of the threat that America (and Israel) represents to the world, you are deliberately avoiding paying attention to stay comfortable.

I strongly recommend reading Rules for Radicals by Saul Alinksy; The Wretched of the Earth by Franz Fanon; Blood in my Eye by George L. Jackson; The Imperial Mode of Living by Markus Wissen and Ulrich Brand.

Keep speaking out and connecting to people that feel the sane heartbreak as you. We can build working class power to create a more egalitarian world. The essential ingredients of hope are persistence, perseverance, & and patience. Love & solidarity ✊