Well you can live in hope, but I wouldn't bother if I were you. Just contemplating that your country is governed by corporations and lobby groups, not by your politicians, who run scared at all times from all such organisations.

I mean, just think of what would happen to any of your politicos who stood up and declared their support for the Palestinians and called for the suspension of military aid to Israel.

Just think of what would happen if any of them stood up and declared that gun ownership by the general public should be illegal.

Just think of what would happen if any of them stood up and declared that, in the interests of tackling global heating, petrol would cost $8 per gallon and that anyone owning a car with an engine bigger than, say, 1500 cc, should be heavily penalised.

What would happen is thst we'd have a stack of toast that we'd never demolish even via the heartiest breakfasts.