> Perhaps rightly - We have rule of law, if a person is doing something unethical, change the law - if your electeds wont change the law, vote them out and pick

> Perhaps rightly - We have rule of law, if a person is doing something unethical, change the law - if your electeds wont change the law, vote them out and pick people who will. I don't mean this sensationally, but I do have to say it: you're promoting violence by saying this. Maybe indirectly, but it still leads to violence. Money, in the US, is speech. That means that the richest people in the country have the most speech. They are heard the most by politicians because they put those politicians into power through their speech. This is done through mass communication in the media among other things. But it also happens through campaign donations, PACs, and whatever other interest groups. When a group of people tries to "vote them out and pick people who will", inevitably a person with more speech than them uses it to override the will of that group. There is a massive asymmetry of power, one that is near impossible to overcome: https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/62327F513959D0A304D4893B382B992B/S1537592714001595a.pdf/testing-theories-of-american-politics-elites-interest-groups-and-average-citizens.pdf https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/c... As people continue to see their material conditions decline despite voting, they begin to see violence as the only solution. So when you say "just vote away the problem", you are promoting violence, because voting continues to prove ineffective. Oh, and just to pre-empt derailing: I vote. In every primary. In every election. Local, state, and national. In every run-off election.