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It's hard to avoid when all our parties are in favor of this garbage.
Then run for election. That's the point of democracy. If our leaders are bad, there's no one to blame but ourselves.
Obligatory addendum: A downvote does not constitute a counter-argument.
You can't run for politics unless you're already a known figure with a wide reach. Please don't pretend that our iteration of democracy isn't extremely insular and gatekept.
With this can-do attitude, we're really gonna get things changing!
You make it sound like it's trivial to get a position of political power when said position is already being vied for by several people, many of which have way more money and resources than the average lemming