You choose, even when you don't vote

Cool, so, inside that trolley are also all the issues listed there who will die if it's derailed, because anyone who thinks that a revolution will be communist led and bloodless hasn't spent more than ten minutes in this fucking country.

Sorry you want a revolution without doing the hard work of actually establishing the popular basis for one.

How does one do that in this metaphor? Vote for one by mail and the other in person? That just lands you in jail and is functionally equivalent to sending the train down the "moral high ground" track.