&quot;Disillusioned&quot; is a catch-all for so many different things though.<p>One might be upset at hearing about corrupt practices or &quot;it&#x27;s not what you know it&#x27;s who you know&quot; politics, because that&#x27;s all we hear about in the news and on TV shows (because that&#x27;s the salacious part of politics).<p>One might be upset at having no effective voice because of the two-party system and the sheer size of the electorate in each state: If I&#x27;m a libertarian or a national socialist or a communist, I have no real representation in government.<p>One might be disillusioned that the above points don&#x27;t actually reflect how democracy works, and that the real hard work of legislation comes from things the public doesn&#x27;t get to see: Cultivating relationships; the give and take of favors and votes; saying yes to something that&#x27;s slightly against your principles so that you can get a reciprocal yes for something important to you later on.<p>Disillusionment is too big a thing to make me stop voting. The best way to change the system is to use it, and that means I need to vote, <i>despite</i> each of the above points. The next best way to change the system is to bring about revolution that replaces it, and that is a singularity that nobody can see beyond, and that recent history has not shown to work.