> There are many, many politicians who aren't bought There are some, sure. Alexandria O'Casio-Cortez for example ran a campaign on grassroots donations lambast

> There are many, many politicians who aren't bought There are some, sure. Alexandria O'Casio-Cortez for example ran a campaign on grassroots donations lambasting politicians taking corporate donations and prioritizing their corporate constituents. But when the average U.S. senator spends 2/3 of the last 2 years of their term fundraising, I don't think this cynicism is unwarranted. Hopefully the takeaway from my cynicism isn't that there is no hope, but that more drastic measures are needed to make real change. All these problems imply serious structural/systemic inefficiencies in our system. Simple telling people to vote has not really gotten us very far as the problem runs deeper.