Donald Trump put up a video of President Barack Obama being arrested by the FBI in the Oval Office as you can see in the screen grab. Trump is exceedingly happy about it, of course. The video starts with Obama and a number of Democrats all saying "No...
What the hell am I going to do about the way things are? I can’t fix it. I inherited it. And the dumb people are taking over. I’ll spend my knowledge but life is too damn short to go on “fighting the good fight” when the majority is morons.
As he said, “please get involved in your local community if you aren’t already.”
He didn’t say “fix the problem.”
There were more words than that. But even a local investment should not be my responsibility. I pay taxes and work and have a kid with hobbies. The system was designed to not be in the middle of all the time and monitor it like it’s on life support. The system was designed to pay attention every six months to a year and hire someone to represent our interests. Not make it a damn hobby.
You make it sound like this system was designed with your interests in mind.
The problem is, the system is broken without direct participation, and most people expect it to just work for them with no more effort than paying most taxes and obeying most laws (and possibly voting).
That is not how it was intended to work. It was never meant to be a high maintenance endeavor. It was meant to be representatively maintained with the constituents in mind.