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You're not wrong about how they operate.

But there's absolutely far reaching consequences to major decisions by leaders in power. Don't fool yourself thinking "It hasn't burned down yet" just because it's not a Hollywood societal-collapse movie before your eyes.

Work sucks more than ever for us now. Know why? Long-dead Reagan absolutely destroyed workers' rights and established precedents that put bosses much higher on society's totem pole. Recessions happened. People get desperate and forget that they even HAD rights as workers. Clawing this back is the battle of our time at home.

Before that? FDR's New Deal actually secured quite a bit of prosperity for people amidst a complete disaster. People still benefit from Social Security to this day, even if only a little.

Teddy Roosevelt established the National Park system. Now we're happy we don't have luxury apartments in the middle of Yosemite or Yellowstone, or fast food chains all along the Grand Canyon. (Or it hasn't been used as a landfill or something because the hole was already dug so it saves costs!)

Citizen's United is why we have trillions of dollars in shadow-money funding "both sides" of a broken system. (Although that wasn't put up to vote, the people in charge were sworn in by people that were elected.)

TL;DR: I get it. It's all stupid, we're all constantly lied to. That's super lame. We know and we hate it.

BUT:

Votes. Have. Consequences.