No, the disconnect is that you don’t know the difference between stage one and stage four, and who causes which.
Enjoy the purity of your irrelevance.
Believing electing a different political party or person can change our plight is like voting for a new captain and crew on the Titanic after it has gone dead in the water.
As for me and my family, we’re scrounging the ship for hammers and nails so we can build our own life boat from deck chairs. Others will try to plug the hole and others will try to get the motor started. Good luck with that. The structure of the vessel precludes either from being a viable solution path, though you will never convince them of that. ;-)
Actually, if Titanic had started her engines at once and driven herself into the pack ice, most of the 1512 passengers and crew who died, would not have.