Enjoy!
You need to look up the definition of “participate”, FRiend. You want to define it as “voting in the election”. That serves your purposes well.
I am participating, starting with making the effort to explain such intricacies as the definition of “participate” to you.
You are entirely correct that there is no “perfect” candidate. There are, however, unacceptable candidates. I’m sorry your standards are so low that you don’t mind lending your name, efforts, and vote to whatever is less bad than the worst.
The next phase of my own participation is to work as hard as I can to ensure that those few unacceptable candidates are not selected. Being a conservative, I would like to see a nominee that will move the ship away from the lip of the liberal falls we are approaching. Slowing the rate of approach does not prevent the ship from going over.
Have a good day.