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"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.

I swallowed the red pill years ago. I have no fantasies about what Washington's suits mean to my life. I realize the system has gone bad, is deteriorating, and have joined a Southern Nationalist organization which will, hopefully, let my people pick up the pieces.
We honor the patriots of the past, and those who believe they're doing right in the present. I also know when the debt bubble bursts, and Washington uses force to again suppress our freedoms, someone has to have a level head and sense of reality to maintain some memory of the free people we had been.