Significant events can happen at the state level.
In recent years, we have seen cutbacks in abortion, and new policies such as Walker’s efforts in Wisconsin to cut back the power of public employee unions.
Both of these are changing the debates in this country on these issues. And they are happening in the state legislatures, not in Washington, DC.
Don’t under estimate the power of states to make positive changes in the direction of the country. Not everything important has to happen in Washington, DC.
John Oliver just did a segment on state legislatures on Last Week Tonight. IIRC, from 2011-2013, the bills passed by Congress was over two orders of magnitude LESS than the amount passed by states, It was staggering.