To me voting is kind of irrelevant because the people in power are the capitalists and it doesn’t really matter who you choose as their representative. I do vote but I don’t hold any value to it. If I were in the US I’d vote 3rd party because my values just do not allow me to vote for someone who actively supports a genocide.
I find more value in creating a strong leftist community that includes mutual aid and political activism. Historically disruptive activism has achieved more than elections so I like to spend the limited energy I have to activism.
I see that a lot of people around me don’t feel any responsibility towards volunteering work and helping their own community, because the liberalist ideal we grow up with is that self growth implies community growth (????). So I try to give the people around me the opportunity to see the value in volunteering and creating a stronger community. Unions are honestly the best place for this because they actively improve the lives of the people who put in the effort and is therefore the most rewarding.