You can smugly vote for socialism and claim you did all you could while our country goes down the drain.
Neither voting for socialism nor smug nor happy about the s(h)ituation we find ourselves in. Ok. Let's play your metaphor.
The drain (Republic, Economy, etc) is plugged. We had the chance to nominate our best guy, an hnest conservative plumber early on to fix the mess. Instead we kept pushing competitive bidding among them until all the little guys couldn't afford to continue. But the big corporate Mr RINO-Rooter conglomerate in town held out because they have the cash and the discipline and is now the only game in town.
Now there's also a Commie from the City Waste dept who is offering to come out and have "his people" destroy your house and remove all your plumbing and give you free chamber-pots and a wheelbarrow and a shovel.
So you can choose to run off into the woods to get away from the smell. But until we can get some honest plumbers back in the business (the ones this time turned out to be shams didn't they?**) then we merely have the choice of how long we can clear the drains until the next clog (4 years?)....or completely turn our house into a third world cesspool for the next century.
** Which one of these two-faced "conservative" suckups who are now not just caving, but supporting the RINO did we want to be our "principled" leader?