They emphasize violent criminals to build prisons and they fill them with drug offenders, and insist on the death penalty. And national politics, this Clinton scandal, is like a circus side show. It involves only 4 or 5 percent of the population, and the rest of us are just being entertained by it. We can't even relate it to our own lives. Whatever politician takes office, our lives don't change.
Voting is a symbolic act.
It doesn't mean anything, because there are no choices anyway. Whether it's the court system, whether it's our two-party system, whatever. That's just drilled in your head from the first grade on. We've made mistakes, and it's not perfect, but it's the best thing that anyone's ever come up with. It's not a bad thing to be isolated sometimes.