The fundamental idea of democracy is that you have your say. Even if the outcome isn’t your’s, your vote showed how much people wanted the other things, this influencing the group that got it.
Your thinking anti-democratically. You are chastising individual voices in the system for not doing what you wanted for your outcome. That’s literally how authoritarianism starts. Check yourself.
Go watch a documentary on democracy.
You are locked in a two party system, so you seem to have this idea that you have to choose blue to prevent red.
That notion of thought is literally anti-democratic. It is against the voice of the people. It stifles the people and presents two shit options instead of listening or having the people in power. Your voice is taken away and you are in support of that. You are literally trying to explain democracy to me throigh anti-democratic notions.
With such an understanding of democracy, I can only assume you have a US education.