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The system is broken, ma'am, and no amount of voitng will change things.
Secondly, our military is being used for empire-building, and not for protecting us (for example, why do we have massive forces in Germany to protect us against the Soviet Union when the Chinese now run the Panama Canal?). Even my daddy says the military is being criminally misused, and he has 35 years in the Marine Corps under his belt.

"The system is broken, ma'am, and no amount of voitng will change things."
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So...what are you saying? The system is broken, voting won't fix it, so the citizenry should follow your stated example to just not vote, sit on our hands, and criticize every effort put forth by anyone else who steps forward to participate in making the system work?

I don't know that I would disagree with all of your daddy's opinions, or even yours, to a degree about politicians and current events. That isn't the point. Few of us will rarely, if ever, agree on everything. Each of our efforts alone may not amount to much, but we can join with others of like mind to petition, and write letters to newspaper editors, and telephone, and email, and generally make our voices heard to those whose decisions and actions do have the power to effect our lives, and to those who need to be educated on the issues. (That's one of the reasons I became a member here.) We can vote, and I think it is wrong not to do so. And, those of us who believe can pray. The brother of my Lord Jesus Christ says in James 5:16 that "...the effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much."

A defeatist attitude didn't get us thru the past 200 + yrs. with all of their flaws, and it will not help us now, or ever. We the people still have the power, but vigilance is required to keep it, else the day may soon come when voting REALLY won't make a difference.

I may never leave bloody footprints in the snow at Valley Forge, or do any of the countless other heroic deeds that guaranteed my privilege to enjoy the freedoms of this the greatest country on earth, but I'll contribute what little I can. If that type of attitude seems naive, or melodramatic, to jaded or skeptical minds, I'll just say it was good enough for our forefathers...it's good enough for me.