My advise: if voting is a distraction, then don’t get distracted. It costs nothing. Cast it and care no more, focus on other things immediately after doing it. :)
You can’t build a better future by just voting, but you can use it to stop someone from running your society totally into ground.
In my imagined future, a country can climb down from voting to sortition, and decentralize the power of sortitioned representatives further downward until the state is just a label, but abandoning the present because of a future that’s out of reach - that’s not wise.
The present system needs attending to, until the next step is within reach.
OP, you have just spammed the same post to 9 communities. The document you posted is from year 2016. I should note that a few things have changed since them. Iran has massacred over 1000 protesters during the Mahsa Amini rebellion. Iran has supported the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Iran has had a war with Israel (but I can’t really blame them, since escalation was mutual). And most recently, Iran has massacred what’s likely several thousand protesters during the past few days.
I should note that Iranian people, all of them, also have plans. The US isn’t the only organization on Earth with ability to plan things, and attempt to fulfill their plans.
Some ayatollahs plan to keep ruling with an iron fist, killing thousands if needed. Some leftists joined them in revolution decades ago, but were surprised to see that the ayatollahs hijacked state. Those leftists used to blow the ayatollahs up (in scores) decades ago, but had to retreat out of the country. Some king used to rule before the revolution, and surprisingly some people think the king’s son might be a suitable person for a transition government. I notice that he seems intelligent, but I don’t think he’s suitable. He’s just their best known opposition figure currently…
…but of course, talk of a transition goverment is pie in the sky fantasy as long as 12.7 mm flies on streets.
The most pressing problem is that protesters have lost over 10 000 people as prisoners (likely to be excuted as “enemies of god”) and likely several thousand as dead, while the Basij and IRGC have lost less than 100 members.
The most pressing problem is that Iranian protesters aren’t armed, don’t have explosives, don’t have decent communications and most of them don’t know how to improvise weapons, explosives and communications. As a result, they’re getting slaughtered.
There is also a secondary problem. A US president promised to protect them, and it seems they believed him. They shouldn’t have. Even if he intends to do something, they’ll be dead by that time.