Why, exactly, do you want to throw a hail mary? Are we about to fall off a cliff? Is there some kind of apocalypse waiting to destroy us if we don't do something drastic? Have we run out of other options?

The point I'm trying to make is that the federal government is not some kind of faceless opaque entity that can be treated as a foe to be defeated. It's a big ol' complicated conglomeration of thousands of groups made of of millions of people. Yes, that is hard to wrap your head around at once, but the information is out there. It's all public, you don't need to sneak around or bribe people or whatever, you can just look up who does what, when, why and for how much.

But actually doing that is hard work.