Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell bluntly warned Republican senators in a private meeting not to sign on to a bill from Sen. Josh Hawley aimed at limiting corporate money bankrolling high-powered outside groups, telling them that many of them won their seats thanks to the powerful super PAC the Kentucky Republican has long controlled.
The only real authority is the voters. If voters are angry enough then they’ll vote the bums out.
Manufactured consent, the two party system, and entertainment “news” ensure that will never happen.
People have a right to vote and access to accurate news if they care enough to look for it. It’s pathetically easy to stay informed in this day and age.
Accurate news is only accessible to people who can read it. And sadly, a majority of the US lacks the literacy skills to do that. Additionally, voter suppression in the US is becoming increasingly common with some nonprofits seeing the US becoming less democratic over time. Combine this with recent efforts to sabotage education even more, and it becomes unlikely that voting will meaningfully change anything.
The only ones at fault for all of those problems are the American people themselves. As long as they continue to play victim and blame everyone else for their problems instead of working to fix what has been broken and combat tyranny, even at the cost of their own lives, nothing will change.
But they won’t because they are selfish, cowardly, immature, abusive and cruel, so nothing will change for them.
Voting is the only way anything has any chance of changing. What if the other option? Hoping? Protesting? Complaining on message boards won’t ever change anything. A lot of users are here because reddit became significantly worse. Lots of mods and users protested and subreddits went dark. Did that accomplish anything? You can’t vote for the board of directors at reddit but you can vote for your government. If you want better policies the only option is to vote.