The best way to convince people to do what you want is to talk down to them and separate them into two categories. The good, ones who agree with you, and the bad, ones who don’t. It is these types of forced polar opposites that have brought peace to our nation.
Yeah, get to chose between two statist big government jerks! The voting ’empowers’ you in the same sense that getting to pick between rapist A and rapist B ’empowers’ you.