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We can stop this by first admitting the problem
Stop referring to it as a 'democracy' ... because it isn't.
Sure, people go to vote once every four years ... but the campaigns, advertising, marketing, influence, and payment to professionals to manage a campaign and then after the election to influence and lobby the same politicians on an ongoing perpetual system are all paid for by millionaires and billionaires (and if not directly, than indirectly)
Common people participate in the system once every four years .... millionaires, billionaires and corporations manipulate the system all the time whether there is an election or not
Who do you think has the most influence on a political system?
Why do we keep referring to it as a democracy?
Because influence ≠ votes. It's a diseased democracy, plagued by capitalism, but we are not yet at the point where billionaires can simply buy Electoral College votes. If governance was just at the whims of the rich, why would they work so hard to suppress voting?
There's not much time left before the next election. Maybe take a break for your mental health, eh? Most people probably already know how they're going to vote, anyway.
Obligatory braindead: "It's a Republic"
But the fact is, It's a constitutional republic run of a representative democracy.
And to be clear, "representative democracy" is quite antithetical to a "direct democracy", which is what we all think when we say "democracy".
Basically: it's a crock of shit, on purpose!