The thing that is missing is that your interests are not completely atomic and isolated. You share most of your important political interests with many other pe

The thing that is missing is that your interests are not completely atomic and isolated. You share most of your important political interests with many other people, forming a class. Making politics democratic means you can collaborate with your class to find common freedom. The near death of popular politics in America and its replacement with TV spectacle obscures this. Basically, your complaint is that your vote doesn't matter and that's a function of how deteriorated American democracy is, now best characterized as a plutocracy, that people think this way.