The first one is the case. In my opinion, some of our comrades could use a reminder that our focus doesn't need to be on telling people who to vote for — that's just more electoralism brainworms. (As comrade @darkernations@lemmygrad.ml pointed out, there are countries with functional democracies that don't have this problem, but I'll leave that part to other comrades and assume you're US citizens who are eligible to vote in the state in which you reside.)

Vote for whoever you want. We're just trying to explain that there's a reason for the "most important election ever!!!1!!eleven" that keeps being pulled every election — the solution is not to be found in electoralism at all. It's a tiny band-aid that will at best delay the rise of fascism, but will not actually solve the root problem.