Well first, "sickening" is a fighting, somewhat hyperbolic word. Second, I wouldn't call your attitude sickening, but I would call it unfortunately fatalistic.

Well first, "sickening" is a fighting, somewhat hyperbolic word. Second, I wouldn't call your attitude sickening, but I would call it unfortunately fatalistic. First off, politics happens one step at a time. Second off, if you read to the very end of the article, his efforts weren't completely in vain. At the end, the big providers came through and delivered some form of fiber, which let him sit with a very comfortable and serviceable 85 mb/s. Not a complete victory, but certainly a minor one.