Exactly. The elections are an enormous PR exercise designed to fool ordinary people into the silly notion that they actually have a voice, and an effect on national policy. Elections used to be held in Soviet Russia for the same purpose. All the candidates were assorted representatives of the ruling order, and the same is true in American elections. It's just pretend, folks! 2 major parties...with one ruling $y$tem behind them. The more they can divide you to fight against each other uselessly over those 2 totally bogus parties, they better they can divide and conquer. And that's all it amounts to.

But just wait. The next election will come, and you'll get caught up in the game...just like always. You'll get hooked by the drama. It's a many-month drama, like a huge TV mini-series or a sports playoff, put on to distract and entertain. The ruling $y$tem always wins, no matter which party takes the presidency.