Well said!  Nothing there I don't agree with.  It's just trusting them to hand the power back.  And then trusting if they do that our republic is strong again.  It would require the repeal of most laws past in the 20th century for me to trust it again.  I wouldn't blame them if they couldn't trust it to turn it back over again.  And is it going to take 10 years at this pace to set it all right. Ppl will care and try to vote again if the system is repaired and good candidates are put forward to vote on.  (See my comments in this post on we now have the technology to identify Sociopath and Psychopaths by their brain function patterns but we are not allowed to test anyone for it) But the spin and lying has made it nearly impossible to know.  What would help is if we decrease the money in politics, lobbying, place term limits on senators and house members and not allow such huge staffs whose main job seems to be how to trick us into thinking something is good that is not. You make a good point though with such a large percentage of ppl not even bothering to vote.