This is such an infantile understanding of politics. I too used to get on this high horse, but why? You understand how the process works, it isn’t being done in your name. You can feel ashamed, or wish to exercise your infinitesimally tiny political power to try to change things, but you are mostly just an observer to the spectacle.
sorry to not see this in forever.
i am not powerless, or trapped, or free of choice. i can leave the country. i can resist in whatever way it is within my power to do so, i can attempt to convince my fellow citizens of the error of our country's path so as to alter it. if i instead go about my daily business, unwilling to change my life even slightly in response, i am acquiescing and complicit.