It's pretty well the same deal in every Democratic society, mate. Surely that doesn't come as a surprise to you. They're all cutting deals, passing bills, and getting it legislated behind closed doors in wee hours of the morning.
As for voting, it's the only tool us civilians have to try and change the momentum in which direction the country make take. But even that is having a dwindling effect over the last 50 years. But it's all we got, and unfortunately, it's used moreso to dislogde a party that's fuck up in the previous/current term.
It's not much but it's all we got, and i'll excercise that right even if it is to dislodge the fuckwits. As pointless as it seems i will practice that right, before all the cunts sell us out completely to foreign interest.
As for constantly bitching about politics and not voting in our Democratic system makes fuck all sense to me. It pointless, and removes any weight to one's opinion that they may have, for mine.
Got a better system/idea, mate?