That's the view from behind the rosy glasses, indeed. Not reality.

Constitutions are trampled by emergency powers, and the US has been in a constant state of emergency for over half a century. You could say the constitution is "temporarily"® suspended, until the emergency ends™. Not a new game, same happens to every babylonian state.

Voting for change is a meaningless practice as the unfavorable result to the status quo gets discarded or a re-do forced. Voting to legitimize a corrupt oligarchy however is not meaningless - that's the reason elections get massive publicity. Without your vote, which wont lead to positive change for you, they would have to resort to more obvious authoritarian methods. That's bad for bizz and grifting so voting is heavily encouraged.

The alternative to a bad practice is not doing it. The alternative to stealing and killing is not doing it. So the alternative to voting for masters is not to vote. If you insist voting is the only meaningful activity to your community I encourage you to think if you are in a good place and if not - move (vote with your feet).