By "important" I meant our overall trajectory and our ability to change it.

Every election has consequences for many, what I meant was that, imho the conversion of the former opposition to neoliberals, and the codification of legal political bribery that started with the creation of the Federalist society in the 80s that culminated in Citizens United means fight over social rights all you want, beat yourself bloody poories, the economy is no longer something the people have a say in under the current government.

The economy is the core rot that breeds desparation, which leads to hatred, which leads to scapegoating. The conditions are right for Trump, and if not Trump, someone like him, because of the effective economic dictatorship of our oligarchs.

As you said IF we're permitted a vote again, we'll keep electing "strongman" archetypes like trump out of ignorant desparation(no different than Germany post ww1 because of sanctions), and we're desperate because we're largely not benefitting from the value we're generating by design.

Without making the economy work for society, we'll keep circling back to fascism until it destroys us, and we no longer have the means to change the economy because almost anyone and everyone can be bought by those with effectively infinite sums in the light of day now to keep their exploitation in place.