It's too late to work within the system, but it's too soon to start shooting the bastards. It's a good book, and an interesting read, full of useful information on preparedness and self-sufficiency.
Democracy is normally in perpetual crisis.
It requires the same constant, alert attention to keep it from going to pot that an automobile does when driven through downtown traffic. If you do not yourself pay atttention to the driving, year in and year out, the crooks, or scoundrels, or nincompoops will take over the wheel and drive it in a direction you don't fancy, or wreck it completely. When you pick yourself up out of the wreckage, you and your wife and kids, don't talk about what THEY did to you. YOU did it, compatriot, because you preferred to sit in the back seat and snooze. A couple of years ago, the small rural town in upstate NY that I live in tried to pass a local noise ordinance.