Count your blessings. My 85 year old sister has been politically active for her entire life. All to no avail. Of course, she's at the other end of the political spectrum, a Bernie Sanders supporter, but she's stood on street corners waving signs, has signed up to be a delegate and all of that crap and it hasn't done squat. It does make her feel like she's doing something positive but what she is finally coming to realize is that the game is rigged, that no amount of petitioning or grass-roots political activism is going to change a damn thing.

The little guy is powerless and you're time is far better off spent stocking that root cellar, stockpiling ammunition and developing a local community of like-minded individuals who are self sufficient.

Obama got into office wanting to derail Bush policies but, aside from creating social havoc and increasing taxes, he kept them all in place.

Ron Paul wanted the US to stop interfering with foreign governments, go back to the gold standard and let Americans be free. That's an "anti-government" stance. You can't run for government unless you're going to grow government. Those in control would never allow that.

Trump would never have become president if he weren't a billionaire who financed his own campaign (and probably liberally greased the skids). His idea was to Make America Great Again, stop sabre rattling, let people be self-sufficient and work for themselves and not the government. Once he got in, I'm sure, like Obama, the guys in the black suits took him aside and explained that, despite his vision of how America should be that this was how it was going to be and how he was going to do it.

No matter who gets in the policies are always either going to favor a large bureaucracy that over-regulates people and small business in favor of big business, or a downsized government that deregulates rich individuals and giant corporations freeing them to prey on the public and their treasure.

You as a citizen are simply a commodity. Either you tithe to the government run corporate interests or you tithe to those business directly. You have no other choice.

Anyone who makes it onto the ballot is suspect, somebody's puppet, probably a self-centered psychopath, Adam Kokesh notwithstanding. And anyone who won't further the agenda of those actually pulling the strings tend to leave the planet prematurely.

Really. Spend your time doing something important like feeding your chickens. Politics is a swamp and will always be so. It will will never drain and the gator's hunger never abates. Just like Steemit, when you play their game, they always win.