General Discussion
In reply to the discussion: The Lost Hosts Awaken [View all]You have expressed -- very well -- what myself and many others feel. Our current system of government is discouraging, to say the least. And I definitely understand why so many people ask, "What is the use?" I'd be lying if I said that I've never felt that way.
Our activities, including voting, really have to be not because of the system so much as despite it. That system is wholly incapable of instituting truly meaningful change from the top down. That's not to say that it never did so in the past; rather, because it has become a corporation, it no longer can. For so long as government equals corporation, it can only act as a corporate state.
Just as it has taken a long time to reach this low ethical level -- one in which amorality is required for promotion -- it will require a long-term effort to change it. But it will change: the only question is if it gets better or worse. And, again, the momentum is hurling us in the wrong direction.