Oh my god YES, the cynicism in politics and about the process is the quickest, surest way to guarantee that the people who hold those attitudes will be proven r

Oh my god YES, the cynicism in politics and about the process is the quickest, surest way to guarantee that the people who hold those attitudes will be proven right. "Those politicians are all the same, there's no point in voting or being politically active, it's all going to hell, etc." It's so not true, and it's just the kind of disempowering disregard for one's own agency that anyone who's greedy for power would love to hear. Man, when I hear that shit now, I just want to shake those people and say, "YOU'RE THE PROBLEM!!" You're right, it is a continual fight. It never ends. There's no final set of laws or behaviors we're going for. The process is what matters.