Both components of your claim are dubious. > things that enable those currently in power to remain in power they do well 1. It's unclear to me how most of our

Both components of your claim are dubious. > things that enable those currently in power to remain in power they do well 1. It's unclear to me how most of our military hardware is in any way even closely related to "enabling those currently in power to remain in power", perhaps aside from functioning as PC jobs programs. Super impressive engineering, but it's not really clear to me why most of it is particularly necessary. 2. Then I guess maybe we should vote for people who run effective services. > Things that help the average citizen, most definitely not. My local government has a system that allows you to reserve park space. I can also look up hours for rec centers on the city website. Those things are helpful to me, the average citizen, and definitely work well.