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“I Am Done Voting for the Lesser of Two Evils. I Will Not Vote for Joe Biden in 2024.”
(inthesetimes.com)
keeping creationists out of your local school board is a great example of your point 3 exception.
There's probably even some population size where local politics aren't totally inbred but aren't prohibitively big where a small group of invested leftists could elect a city counselor or county clerk, or bully an entrenched liberal into doing good things but you have to do a bunch of non-electoral organizing to get to that point.
Nothing to do but prepare for the maoist uprising against New York's landlords