A democracy is a society which allows all of its members to have a say in what that society does. I know I sure didn't get to vote on any of that stuff. The powers that run this country clearly don't trust you or me to make those decisions. I might not want a car at all, or I might want a van or a motorcycle, but if I accept the choices I've been given, I'll end up with a blue or red car. One set of rich guys puts up a candidate, and so does the other set of rich guys, and those two are the only real choice you have.
Political campaigns become an orgy of prevarication . . .
One rich guy tells one set of lies, the other rich guy tells a slightly different set of lies, and you get to base your vote on which set of lies you like the best. Call me a nut, but I don't want anything cut off, and I find it immoral to participate in an evil system that's figuratively out to collect my body parts, or literally collecting body parts from Viet Nam, Cambodia, Laos, Panama, Grenada, South Africa, Iran, Iraq and elsewhere. Black people need our own systems . . . Participation in the U.S. political system can mean rewards for a person or even for a community, but to get them you have to immerse yourself in what is essentially an evil con game. If you sleep with pigs, you'll wake up covered in shit.