The trick is convincing our fellow voters to vote in their best interest. Decades of propaganda has produced a warped mentality and complete disconnect from reality. Fox News will spin this and people will eat it up.

Honest question: Do you have children? I used to feel as you do, but now that I have children, it's a lot less easy to check out on things.

One has to wonder at the reasoning of a person who complains that the world sucks and decides that the solution is to make it suckier for their own benefit.

You actually cannot escape it, no matter how deep you bury your head in the sand.

That’s not an option for most people and it only goes so far. Climate change affects the entire planet. Disease, crime, and unrest are hard to escape and wealth increases your risk of becoming a target for the latter two.

Only the very richest approach any sort of 'escape' from the system and that's really only with regard to the laws of human society.

That's why they're desperate to 'solve' aging.

Sadly there are so many people in gerrymandered districts that ensure their votes mean nothing. About the only thing they can do is donate - not an answer for less well off folks that are struggling as it is, but I'd wager a good number of people in HN could do it. And if you don't want to donate to the DNC/DCCC (and who could blame you), you can find individual candidates that need help.

It's still a long way from a solution, though.

What this guy said.

Also, consider your talents, pick a problem, and try to solve it.

For instance, is there anything that the credit bureaus provide that we can't beat with a little game theory and some cryptography? Let's build an open source decentralized alternative and use it to replace the whole cancerous sector.

I've done that - I suppose it's marginally better than doing nothing.

But I still feel helpless, voting for incompetent elitist cronies on both sides who are relentlessly abusing the system for their own benefit, or voting for the rare ethical person who is hamstrung by their honest desire to do the right thing and therefore simply can't possibly win this rigged game.

And donate to candidates/campaigns that support your values.

Very optimistic!!

Gerrymandering and the Electoral College means your vote is absolutely worthless!!!

There's cases being presented to the supreme court right now on gerrymandering but do you think the majority conservative supreme court is going to rule against conservative majority thru gerrymandering?

They've won.

Such as?

>>It seems more effective than anything I can do with voting or door to door canvassing.

On the contrary, door to door canvassing can be extremely effective. It is one of the primary reasons why Democrats made huge gains in Virginia state government races, as well as the Alabama special election.

Indeed, a solid ground game is the only way to counter the vast amounts of money Republican donors are pouring into the political system.