History is littered with examples of trying to use the System, to fix the System in regards to government. NEVER has it actually worked without a major revolution.
Ever hear of Lucille Gallegos Kropotkin? Her kind of solutions to the thieves and scoundrels we are currently dealing with would be much more efficacious than banking on some confluence of improbable events.
L. Neil Smith writes good science fiction books, but they are only that: fiction.
The real world doesn't always have easy solutions. Sometimes particular problems don't have any good solutions. But if you are going to make a serious attempt to figure out the best possible solution, you have to first be able to analyze the situation objectively.
Reality is what it is, not what you wish it would be. There is no John Galt to lead us on strike, and no Probability Broach to take us to a preferable alternate universe. Fiction can stir our imaginations and inspire us, but it can't solve our problems for us.