No, they definitely want us to think that it matters despite all evidence to the contrary[1][2][3][4], because they don’t want us rolling out the guillotines.

No, they absolutely want you to think voting is the only way to achieve change, despite organizing being a far more consistent and effective lever to pull than voting. They want you constrained within the boundaries of electoralism because they set up the system so the house always wins, regardless of party.

No, they want you to think that voting Democrat will change things. Guess what. Democrats have a serious track record of escalating just as much as the Republicans. You think neoliberalism is a Democrat thing? No. It started with Reagan. You think the Republicans are the only war mongers? No. Clinton launched the first ever preemptive war for humanitarianism and Obama killed the first US citizen in a foreign land by direct order with a drone strike. You think the Republicans are the racist ones getting black people killed in the streets? No. The Democrats are in full support of transferring military surplus to local police around the whole country.

They want you to think voting matters because then you'll spend all your energy voting and getting others to vote. The reality is that the march of fascism happens whether you vote or not and whether the Ds win or the Rs win. You will get the same net result no matter what. Just read the last century of American history. Even FDR's New Deal was his gambit to save capitalism from the revolutionary conditions of the time. He says his greatest achievement was saving capitalism.

That's the entire reason for the existence of the Democrats in this era - prevent revolt.

I’ve been voting in every election and primary for the last 25 years.

When will it start to effect change?

You should read a book

https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/staterev/

"intellectual property" is a form of private property. It benefits the owning class, not the working class.