"...we are neutered from having any effect on situations we find intollerable."

"We really should have more control over our govern-cement."

"I have just been lied to so often..."

Here's some facts with which to reckon. You are sovereign. Each of us is sovereign. This concept of government is contrary to the fact of our sovereignty and is based on applying authority over sovereign people. Such institution inevitably is infiltrated and becomes the fiefdom of some overlord(s) that profit from that corruption. Evil therefore rules over good sovereign people and wreaks havoc from which despots profit.

There is no acceptable polity other than sovereign individuals themselves meeting with one another and agreeing amongst themselves to proceed acceptably. This agreement is what actual democratic governance is. That is not possible beyond personal interaction with people you know. It cannot be achieved via the internet because our communications cannot be secure. It is impossible to secure agreements with people you cannot hold to account personally, and therefore polities cannot scale beyond tribes.

We are not neutered. We are baffled because we have not been nominally edumacated in tribal political management of our nation, but rather indoctrinated to serve overlords that provide fiat to induce our compliance.

The solution is to recreate nominal tribes that exercise sovereign control by exercising policies they are competent to effect. There will be war, and anyone that cannot undertake exercising their authority is at risk of being killed, and even those that cannot competently network intertribally to create sufficient power to effect their security from hordes of mercenaries may be destroyed. Technology is potential to enable tribal polities to produce themselves such goods and services as are necessary to their needs and produce the blessings of civilization.

More than this cannot be done. Less than this will not suffice.

Thanks!