Changing the world requires caring enough to do something. We'd be in a much worse situation if a friday afternoon's clicktivism wishes were the governing force of western civilization.

Some people think that "do something" means coloring within the lines like 'nabla9 suggests above. Other people don't think that.

You should both color within and outside the lines.

But people who live in democracy complaining that the system is corrupt and not using the system to correct itself are deluding themselves.

There will never be better system that distributes real power without coercive action , corruption and dirty politics.

As an occasional tabletop gamer, I can often conceive several different winning strategies just by reading the rules of the game.

In the game of American representative democracy, I would not recommend your strategy. It's playing for 2nd place.

If you truly believe what you said, you should be recommending that people act to corrupt a public official in a manner that provides some leverage to them, personally. Alternately, poach the blackmail material from someone who already has leverage.

That strategy will increase your power, if it works. But it carries much higher downside risk...

Yes who needs better and more correct code for critical missions, If we all shout loud/longer enough we would win.

You don't have to be activist yourself.

You have to be inside the party machinery where you can show up and vote occasionally and influence who are the activists that get selected into different party positions. Many of them hidden from the media spotlight but set up the scene. There are different interest groups and divisions within parties. Just being member of few and giving some support for others who do the hard lifting work is enough.

Just follow the issues from within the same way as you do now and raise your head sometimes.