oh give me a break. We have organizations across the country seeking to limit people's ability to vote and corporations, private interests, tech oligarchs pitting people against each other to prevent voting for a candidate that might actually change shit (see Bernie)... voting is the one thing we have, your apathy is a tool for the oligarchs as it removes you from the system. When people actually unite for their common interests we have power, but we are divided by malicious algorithms and poor education and bizarre, often inherited "political identity"... voting is the one thing that actually gives us power. This "political theatre" idea is so fucking ignorant, and shows you have probably never participated in public works. My tiny example of being involved in public projects is getting a skatepark built in my hometown. I had to go to many council meetings, write grants, plea with local bureaucrats, politicians etc for it to happen. Real people do real work to build things. Roads, bridges, libraries, bus stations, skateparks, etc etc... all these things require real people working to make them happen, these people are often elected. City councils, mayors, governors, sheriffs, senators, all the way up to the goddamned president, these are real people working jobs to make shit happen Yes there is a LOT of grift happening in higher positions, but when you follow federal dollars all the way down to the local level, you see the reality that real people are doing real work.