u/BenjiD123

The amount of times I've seen people be told this statement and be immediately baffled and try to retort, but then when they think about it deep down something clicks deep in their framework that we are truly living already in a corrupt system.

Politicians in democracies are incentivized to lie, cheat and maneuever their way to the top, get their position in the sun for a while and then dip out with zero consequences to their actions. We are not passing "The torch" so to speak but instead passing on an ever increasing debt of responsibility onto the next leader and the population in general.

This corruption it causes destroys the moral fibers of society overtime, we become jaded and start losing faith in the government. Many people today don't even bother voting, they know it is a farce, it is a huge waste of time to expect meaningful change; as politicans arent held to standards that would force them to comply with their own promises.

Society should be run by experts, elected in the field by fellow experts, people with actual know-how, with incentive to actually build the country for their children and futures. Not for personal gain or maintaining status for so many years or so.

Every meaningful change throughout history, every reform, every opinion, every event that significantly shaped history and the world we live in today has been at the cost of someone losing their life, usually someone innocent, for a cause they either did or did not believe in.

Think about workplace safety, every single workplace precaution or safety standard rule is put in place as a result of someone dying from it. Airplane safety is at its current state because only of previous accidents.

As a species, we only learn from our mistakes and typically are not welcome to forethought, we would rather push our concerns back to a moment where everyone can now see the true danger where it lies, we don't take warnings to heart until it's too late.

Even politically, pretty much most if not all of our rights today were bled for, and in the coming decade, we'll need to remember that if we truly want change and to get our nations back from the bloodsuckers that poison them.

If you truly cared about a subject matter to the point you are willing to go out and show yourself publicly in solidarity with the opinion or goal; then you should know deep down that the hours spent blocking traffic, screaming mindlessly or flying flags; make believe or not - are a complete waste of time.

Advocates, if they truly cared for change, would be volunteering for unpaid work at charity organizations, or working and donating the proceeds to the cause of their concern, but they don't want that. They don't actually want to change anything themselves, they want to scream and cry and piss themselves until someone else finally has had enough and makes the change for them.