[nicholas1987]

Everyone should vote and participate. It's our nation's low political participation that allows politicians to be so unaccountable. If more people were politically active, involved, and educating themselves, we'd have much better politicians and laws. I blame our education system for not teaching people how important voting is.

[sawyer]

Negative, it's the fact that you maintain a two party system where both parties are beholden to lobbyists and financial backers.

Edit: Hehe, no not you personally; I should have said "your nation." :)

[nicholas1987]

Me personally?

I think the problems you cite are made much worse by our weak political participation. When people participate, they're forced to be somewhat aware of what's going on. By not participating they allow themselves to disconnect, which let's politicians get away with more and more.

The root cause is education, if people were more educated they'd feel more empowered and more informed and be more likely to participate--with better results. I think the two party system allows people to be uninformed and just vote on a reflect.

Edit: I know, I was only jesting.

[mcphilip]

Or maybe it's politicians' tendency toward accountability to the highest bidders' interests instead of constituents' that leads to low participation and feelings of disenfranchisement?