Oh, I'm not saying you should give up. On the contrary, I wish you all the luck in the world in restoring sanity to your political and legal systems. I just think you're going to need to bring down the whole house of cards and start over to do it. Then again, given the current economic conditions and the kind of idiocy that results in obviously bought-and-paid-for legislation like what we're discussing here, if ever there was a chance to shake things up it's probably over the next cycle of elections.
You're probably right. But that doesn't mean we should give up: that would be even worse.