Cynical apologism isn't really an answer that holds water. This is 2017. It's the 21st century. Our technology and knowledge surpasses all history. The era of political demagoguery, irrationality, psychopathy, feudalism, division, dark-age thinking, and enslavement is well past over. Our democratic system is about more than 'making choices' by casting ballots. And we were utterly denied anything resembling a real choice by the anti-democratic two-party system in 2016. SCOTUS v Valeo (1976) up through Citizens United and McCutcheon v FEC literally has stolen and subverted our country's government and way of life from us. It's long past due time to take them back and restore sanity to this country.