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human
I feel like our current political system is a corrupt managed democracy that is past the point of no return and nothing short of mass dissolution/revolution can fix it. CMV.

I'm constantly told that both sides are evil and that voting doesn't matter, and to an extent I'm starting to believe it. I am a Democrat and I believe the Democrats are the lesser of the two evils, but they are still politicians that are swayed by big business and lobbyists. 

These big businesses in turn use political influence to stifle real political discourse and in turn control everything that is said on the media. For every one voter that actually takes the time to do real research (which is still potentially mired by all of the false, biased information out there), there are ten, maybe more, that listen to what Fox or CNN tell them to believe and think nothing of it because it's all they know. The system does not encourage people to get real education of real issues.  

At this point, most politicians are being bankrolled by big business in some way and make their decisions based on this, and if they dare fight, they'll be crushed by a different candidate that is willing to be their puppet. Moreover, I believe any attempt to change this situation by voting is useless, because it is like asking the cat to guard the cream. Why would any politician vote for lobbying reform if they directly benefit from this political bribery, especially when there are hundreds of congresspeople that are just like him that are happy slaves of big business? Why would anyone vote to change 'first-past-the-post' when all it does it give third-parties a better chance at dethroning them? They were already elected, they don't have an incentive to change a damn thing. They just voted to put a lobbyist in the FCC chair, unanimously. 

It would take a tremendous voting effort, from an enormous amount of educated people, to even begin to effect any real change, fighting an uphill battle the entire time against the controlled media and stupid, sheep-like single issue voters that will vote one party or another no matter what, and never think to support a grassroots third party candidate, because big business has programmed the majority to vote for their chosen candidates, and don't give a damn about the few that think critically.

Even though I vote, I believe our votes are largely being bought and paid for, and controlled by corporate-driven mainstream media, and our democracy is being managed to give us the illusion of choice when there truly is little hope of any major change that threatens the system. The more I talk to people about the state of things more hopeless I feel. 

**TL;DR:** Our political system is being gamed in a way that prevents meaningful change, because the only ones with the power to make changes are paid by corporations to resist it, and the ones that can vote to get rid of those politicians are fed falsehoods through the media controlled by the same corporations. I feel like the only way to fix this is to scrap it all and start over...and god-forbid, by force, if necessary. CMV.
gpt
Meaningful change (meaning radically quick rewriting of the fundamental diretions of a government) is dangerous. It opens up the door to massively harmful, as well as to massively helpful trends. 

It's nice to imagine that if all checks and balances would be removed, the appearing grassroot parties and candidates and platforms would be moving towards a liberal utopia that *you* happen to hope for, but it's far more likely that they would bring forth a theocratic dictatorship comparable to Iran, or the weimarization of all moderate authorities in favor of several directions of radicalism.

The current government is slow, because it is safe. It takes the public will into account only over a long term, instead of bending to the public's daily mood, it only reacts in case of a reasonably large consensus, instead of automatically putting the 51%'s will into law, and it repeatedly filters new ideas through an establishment, instead of destroying all infrastructure at it's core.