PLease see my thread titled What Else Can I Do?. It's about a song about the importance of voting. No matter how evil and corrupt we find politics to be, the right to vote is the single instrument we have for affecting the process, short of going way out on a limb and being elected to office. With the vote in your possession, you can form a voting bloc, gather like-minded citizens together and use your voting privilege en masse to pressure your representatives to act on your behalf. It isn't perfect. These days it's all up hill, but if we don't wade into the political fray, how can we hope for change in the status quo?