content: Look, I was once like you. I know. I understand. I completely get why so many young people (believe, I'm not an old person,) get so frustrated. It seems like corporate influence rules our country, but it doesn't actually. Corporations can't vote; money can't vote; Fox News, CNN, MSNBC, can't vote. We, the people, the citizens of the United States, can vote. It is only us - no other. It is very, very sad, how much big money influences us. It is sad that we believe Fox News or MSNBC. It's sad that we play into the only leverage that they have, i.e. money and airtime. It's sad that we think they actually have our best interests at heart. It's sad that - persecute me for saying it - Jon Stewart doesn't have our best interests at heart. These people are part of capitalist corporations that need to make money to survive, and as a precept of capitalism, have to make increasingly more and more money to compete. Where do you get honest information, I don't know. However, believing any institution that is beholden to money, will always lead you astray.  My civics teacher once told me that the best way to affect a difference in your life it to vote for city, county, and state officials. It's not bad advice. Those city councilmen, those town alderman, those state representatives, may go on to be senators and representatives and maybe, presidents one day. It is in our best interests as a nation, as people, to invest in the lowest levels, because they could very well be people that make decisions for all of us. Participation at all levels is key to a healthy republic. Our republic has become unhealthy, because we have let it (or actually, I firmly believe, it was the baby-boomers who did it, but that changes nothing and places the imperative on us.)