In order for politics to align towards your values you have to vote for the candidate closest to them, which forces the losing parties to get closer or die, which pushes the winning party to move towards you.

If you throw away or don’t vote none of that happens because you have no impact.

Sounds like a wild judgement of another person who you know nothing about.

Well yes, but think of how much more expensive our lives would be if we couldn’t exploit child labor without having to see it.