re: You idiots...

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What should I have done instead?

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I'll answer since I'm bored and down with the flu.

You had to get involved a long time ago.

Before 2000, the local people were necessary in running a successful campaign. A lot of the campaign tasks were done by local people who regularly got involved. Generally, these people were older, and they had been getting involved in local politics for decades, and they had a lot of influence over huge tranches of votes in their districts.

Then, as less people got involved, a shift started. This shift diminished the importance of the locals and increased the importance of money. Those same locals, who politicians needed and were accountable to, started to disappear, and they were replaced by $$$.

There were plenty of people lined up to fill the people's void with money in order to secure favor from politicians. It soon became apparent that the people weren't necessary or getting involved anymore, and the money was all that really mattered.

Take out local news sources and keep the people reasonably comfortable, and you can do whatever tf you want to do with the governing systems. And, they took them over.

Now, we are in a place where we can't do shite. When the shift started, we could have all sacrificed 20 hours a year to stop it, but we weren't willing to do that. Now, it would take very extreme measures to bring back accountability, and that will never happen with a group of citizens' whose patriotic obligations were met with 13 minutes a year of voting.

It's too bad we couldn't keep the wolves out of the hen house from our couches or a stadium seat or a deer stand.