This is why we should make sure to vote in every election, not just the presidential one. It's about preventing fascists from getting there in the first place by weeding out their support system.
The tendrils of fascism are already in the government. Voting will not solve that. It will do harm reduction, but it's no panacea to the long engrained fascism in this country.
Voting for liberals over fascists will buy more time to organize and slow the descent into fascism. You're correct, it won't stop it, but if your analysis stops right there and you don't take every easy win you can in the fight against Capital, you're LARPing.
I want you to vote because last time we let Republicans win they stacked the Supreme Court the way we all said they would before the election and my wife and daughter’s lives got more dangerous.
Pinochet, the dictator who assassinated the elected president and violently took over Chile with US assistance was removed from power by a vote. For years his political opponents had even been sent to concentration camps that are still around to this day.