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To clarify: I endorse voting because it takes, maybe, an hour of your time every year. (We should have a national voting day, but that's another discussion.) Great, that disclaimer is now out of the way.
The two parties are playing good-cop/bad-cop for the oligarchy. Republicans push the ruling class' agenda and the Democrats pretend to stop them.
Meanwhile, income inequality has been exploding for almost 50 years. The cost of housing, groceries, healthcare, college, child care, insurance, debt are increasing as money is systematically SIPHONED from the lower classes. Productivity increases, the rich get richer, and the bottom of the pyramid (i.e., those who have wages instead of assets) are forced to live on the edge of financial ruin. One missed paycheck or one medical emergency away from homelessness.
The implication of this post is the need for civic engagement in addition to voting. We're going to need grassroots organization. Mass protests, boycotts, strikes, and civil disobedience are all required to take the country back from the oligarchy.