This article does a great job of explaining people's frustration with having to vote for Biden again. It's long, so here are some quotes. They're totally cherry-picked, I'd recommend reading the whole thing (especially if you think the problem started with Biden, and that Clinton and Obama were ever good choices).
during the 1980s and early 1990s, fears of a relentless Republican juggernaut pressured those left of center to take a defensive stance, focusing on the immediate goal of electing Democrats to stem or slow the rightward tide.
Today, the labor movement has been largely subdued, and social activists have made their peace with neoliberalism and adjusted their horizons accordingly. Within the women’s movement, goals have shifted from practical objectives such as comparable worth and universal child care in the 1980s to celebrating appointments of individual women to public office and challenging the corporate glass ceiling.
Each election now becomes a moment of life-or-death urgency that precludes dissent or even reflection. For liberals, there is only one option in an election year, and that is to elect, at whatever cost, whichever Democrat is running. This modus operandi has tethered what remains of the left to a Democratic Party that has long since renounced its commitment to any sort of redistributive vision and imposes a willed amnesia on political debate.
I mean, you probably should vote Biden this time, because he's not all that bad, he's done some good things. And trump is so terrible, it probably will be the end of democracy and the victory of fascism if he wins. Right? But what about in two years time, or four years, or eight years?
It's honestly tiresome. I was caught up in the fervor of the Trump era, when it felt like the Democrats would finally, once it was their turn, start enacting fundamental changes to fix this mess of a country, but now that the combination of the pandemic stresses and the opportunity that results from chaos has died off, I more clearly remember the Obama administration and can watch the Biden administration affirm, they have no desire to make any changes necessary to truly help people or right the incredible wrongs of this nation.
I'm tired of liberal scolds who like to pretend Biden didn't write the Clinton Crime Bill, hasn't routinely granted more funding to police when possible, hasn't increased the military budget and so on.
Tired of them acting like Biden will ever even attempt to fix the fundamental problems with this nation, like FPTP voting, lack of single payer healthcare, overly mitarized police and wanton expansion of civilian surveillance.
I know he's one of the best President's to date on climate and that people in the bottom quartile of income in the US have seen pay rises. It's good, but it's not enough. The Democrat's method of incremental change feels like platitudes in the face of wanton use of power by the Republicans. As if they feel they need to be cautious and careful in their use of power to seem more legitimate in the public instead of wielding the office in a way that makes sweeping benefits to Americans.
I don't think Biden is all that great, I have zero faith he'll ever do anything to truly prevent this country from sliding to fascism in the future, he'll just maintain the status quo and kick the ball to the next guy, just how every other Democrat does it and his successor surely will too.
So vote blue, whoopty doo, what else is there to do?
Treating this as an actual question and not rhetorical. There’s organizing for specific candidates and raising/donating money, ESPECIALLY down ballot. I 100% get being frustrated with the presidential choice, but they are only one part, and honestly a more minor part in your day to day.
Volunteering time for local races has a bigger impact for the amount of time one can put in. Could be letter writing, texting, or phone banking. Could be working for outreach in a local parade, table at a county fair, or door-to-door. I know people that ran for local races like school board where helping them raise $500 is a massive windfall and makes a huge difference.
Sure, keep Biden in to elect judges and sign legislation. Work to elect people locally to change the party.
And also, be aggressive as fuck in the primaries. Hillary Clinton called for "a show of unity" in her primary race and she can get fucked for that... I still voted for her in the general but during that primary I advocated strongly for Bernie.
Absolutely, primaries are for exactly that, the actual November election is about damage control.