> Tearing a system down and replacing it has a significantly higher cost.

Worked out pretty well for Britan's relationship with the EU /s

Participate in the process how? There is no time off, no sick leave, no protections for people who say something their boss doesn't like. People can't even get time off to vote, and all the local polling places are being closed.

The busses are being shut down. Mail in voting is being suppressed. Strict voter identification is being enforced. Residency requirements, black laws, and drug laws prevent the homeless and destitute from voting. District maps have been drawn to disenfranchise opponents.

The game has been rigged. That's what they want to tear down.

There's been so many ills in this thread & it's all so very very Tea Partyist, that the way to win is to get people to not believe in government & the way to get people to not believe in government is to be an awful awful government that cancels services, is unbearably cruel to people, that broadly disenfranchised as hard as it can.

It's sad to see the loyal opposition fall into such disloyal treachery. Now we have radical extremists in power & welcomed in to a major party, I he voice for a sizable chunk of America. And actively working to undo the Union.

Errr. What?

You're right that people have been roundly disenfranchised and are just desperate. There's little time to paritipate.

And they're fed a constant source of Fox News & ever accelerating worse terror mongering telling them to despair, making them think everything not deep red is aflame & terrible Sodomistic horror.

But there are real hopeful politics out there they could at least consider voting for. That have a track record of trying to help more than the plutocrats, that try to build a better social support system. But still, people keep voting for the Leopards Eating People's Faces party. They get jazzed up by the extremely wealthy astroturfed anti-government Tea Party campaigns. And these campaigns just get more and more believable the better and better the red powers get at obstructing & blocking healthy governance. That's the freedom of the Freedom Caucus, that's the Tea Party.

Wait one. The perception that people on the "right" love FOX is a ruse. I assure anyone here they don't. They hate Fox with a passion. There is also no left or right. It is one party. All the sham fighting is a soap opera. I've been around long enough to get screwed by BOTH sides even handed. It does not matter. There is however a way to win; Find your own personal freedom. Once you do that none of this matters much. If you want to wear a mask then do it. If you don't then don't . Same for vaccines and whatever else. It's not easy however finding your own freedom. Hard ass work. Really hard but it can be done. Most are not willing to put in the work so they revert to blaming it one side or the other. NO. It is your own fault. Freedom is not free. Took me a while to learn this fact. End of the day no party is going to do anything for you but get your vote then hoodwink you.