Are you actually advocating that people shouldn’t have to show up to the political system to get the system to go their way? Like, this is exactly what the primaries are for. Obama wasn’t the preferred party candidate in 2008, it was Hilary, but there was so much primary support from Obama that he won over her. The same could have happened in 2016 or 2020, but young voters predominantly didn’t come out to vote in the primaries.

If you think you should be able to just fill out a poll and turn out in November you fundamentally don’t understand how the system works.