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This is true, but naive. There was a choice to be made, you can argue there should be more or better choices, but there weren't. There were two options or the option not to choose. When there's a fork on the road you pick a way, complaining that neither path looks good doesn't get you anywhere.
If there's the Party For Kicking Puppies and the Kill All Minorities Party, neither are good. But I sure as shit would would vote for the former to prevent the later. I don't want puppies kicked, but I want minorities to live even more. Voting for neither then complaining about minorites being killed because "there was no good option" is just deflecting blame in a situation you could impact. Maybe vote in the puppy kickers and try to better it from there, because the other option doesn't leave a lot of room.
Yes, we should have better options. But people should also vote for the best option, because not voting is condoning the worst outcome because you felt no need to do anything to prevent it.