Making it a 0/1 situation is really reductive.

What a load of bullshit. There are better candidates and parties and worse ones, they are not all the same. This sort of attitude just feeds voter apathy and resignation.

Democracy is an imperfect system, but its much better than the alternatives. If more people paid attention and participated, we would have much better outcomes.

"Both sides"

This is such a tired argument that over simplifies an entire group of people on both sides into a single entity that happens to be the same.