Voting does matter, but politicians do listen to their constituents, regardless of what you have heard.
Right now, before an election is an excellent time to get action from those politicians that want to be re-elected.
Perhaps you are the one without real, on the ground experience with politicians and campaigns, and naive about how things work in the real world.
Anyway, you can take your negativity and discouragement of the vox populi and hide them where the sun doesn't shine.
/johnny
How many elected officials have you had in your home? I’ve had several that I’ve held coffees for at the federal and state and local level.
The rest of us are simple folk (commoners) who don’t rate high enough on the social scale to attract political flies.