Changing the world requires caring enough to do something. We'd be in a much worse situation if a friday afternoon's clicktivism wishes were the governing force of western civilization.
But people who live in democracy complaining that the system is corrupt and not using the system to correct itself are deluding themselves.
There will never be better system that distributes real power without coercive action , corruption and dirty politics.
In the game of American representative democracy, I would not recommend your strategy. It's playing for 2nd place.
If you truly believe what you said, you should be recommending that people act to corrupt a public official in a manner that provides some leverage to them, personally. Alternately, poach the blackmail material from someone who already has leverage.