No it doesn't. It may make you feel better just as stomping their feet and wailing makes little kids feel better. In the real world voting for a 3rd party or not voting doesn't mean anything. THE only way to change the system is to take it over from within. Get good people in offices and positions of power.
As it is the liberals control most public schools, most media and increasingly the govt bureaucracies and legal system. We are a very short step away from a dictatorship with many on both sides cheering it on.
But perhaps you're right, perhaps those who stayed home the last several years have triggered a hard right among the GOP leaders that I'm not seeing.
@driftdiver I might agree with you if there was a real choice. There isn't. The differences between Trump and Clinton are meaningless details; like whether the hangman's noose is tied with a lefthand knot or a righthand knot - it's still a hangman's noose and our necks will just as surely be broken no matter which one is used to hang us.
I am a pragmatist; but my pragmatism is not limitless and it does not descend to the level at which I become a political prostitute, whoring myself out for a handful of strokes on my ego.
Furthermore, most of the issues you mention are not amenable to merely electing this or that person as president. Schools are controlled at the local level. Media is controlled by those who participate in its making and broadcasting. Even government bureaucracies are controlled more by the rank and file civil servants - who generally have substantial protection from firing - than by the head of the executive department. Hercules had an easier time cleaning out the Augean Stables than would one president have in one term attempting to clean out the entire federal civil service.
If conservatives/republicans really want to change these things, and change them down at the roots, then they had better get off their duffs and start doing the really boring stuff of showing up en mass at school board meetings, running as candidates in school board elections, doing the boring work of becoming real journalists, not radio pimps like Rush Limbaugh, and doing the boring stuff of being rank and file civil servants. Liberals undermined these institutions from the inside by doing that sort of hard, tedious work, and the damage can only be repaired from the inside. Electing some two-bit narcissistic SOB with a persecution complex is not going to help, and in fact will most likely hurt.
And no, we are not but a short step away from dictatorship, or if we are, that step is as short along Route Trump - with the echoes of national socialism from yesteryear beginning to ring in his speeches - as it is along Route Clinton.
So, if I am a child stamping my feet, then you are a prostitute, whoring yourself for a few measly pennies. I'll take being a child over being a whore any day of the week.