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You just aptly described the two-party system and the people who vote for it. Cheers.
Vote FOR it, or vote IN it. Two different things. Pretty sure most people would love more choices to fit the many directions and not have to accept with "close enough" or "better than the other one". As for voting in the system as it exists, there is absolutely the option to just not vote because you feel it's a waste... but then you get what we have now, since most non-voters (for whatever reasons they didn't) would have not picked Trump.
The real flaw: people who shout that voting is useless during a voting year, but then don't try and improve the system during the off years with what's there. Of course it's the same voting dichotomy if no one bothers to change it before the next cycle. You get what you put in. I would suggest that it's because of apathy between voting periods that's the problem, people vote (or not) and then ignore politics until the next go around, and are shocked that it's the same.