Have you tried it before insulting others? Because I have. I have spent the last two decades involved on a local level from city councils, to planning commissions, to advisory boards. On a local level the politics are controlled by the county threatening to withold funds, on a county level politics are controlled by the state threatening to withold funds, on the state level politics are controlled by the Federal government threating to withold funds. All covered up in layers, and layers, and layers of bureaucrats, mid level functionaries and government agencies whose sole purpose is to insert themselves into any equation to make it more complicated and expensive. There is a reason most municipalities are strugling with infrastructure that is 30-40 years past its expected lifespan, and every city has pothole ridden roads. It is impossible to make a difference from the bottom up. Cities have very little leverage over counties, and counties have very little leverage over the state. It is absolutely a top down system. The only reason one side of the political theater makes a difference is because they use blackmail and threats of violence, but it is not a lasting position. The broken systyem cant be exploited simply because it has been in place longer than you and I have been alive and has evolved to mitigate anything you can throw at it to thwart its efforts, short of large scale violence. So you can cal it a cope for inaction, but I have been there and am still there, and I am telling you, you are wrong. Take it or leave it.