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Voting is how these people got in office to begin with. The problem is them, and the problem is us.

• swalsh 13y ago
  Exactly, this whole fiasco has really highlighted that there exists some fundamental problem in the system today. Normally the system of checks, and balances actually works so no individual can exploit the entirety... and if they do, they only have a limit time span to cause havoc, at which point the people vote them out. however there's two flaws. A lot of people are putting emphasis on gerrymandering. Which I suppose is a practical problem that at least has some semblance of possibly being solved. However to me gerrymandering is really just exposing an even deeper problem, which is a large uneducated populous that is not only becoming uninformed but misinformed... and since we all live in our own bubbles, its really easy to gain confidence that the misinformation we have is true. Remember that Ted talk a few years ago about the filter bubble? This is a practical reality of its effects... The thing that scares me on a personal level, is I have no clue if the information I take for granted is true or not... and i may very well be just as guilty in voting for the wrong candidates.