No one is "putting up with it." We don't have a choice. The way our government is designed right now, the populace doesn't really have elected representatives.

No one is "putting up with it." We don't have a choice. The way our government is designed right now, the populace doesn't really have elected representatives. More accurately, they have a corporate bought-and-paid for stooge that managed to be more likeable in a political race than their opponent, so we don't actually have anyone representing our interests _as a country_ at the federal level.