The common voter can’t have much effect on government and its policies. A majority of the states remain true to a certain political party, and only a few hundred people rarely affect states that don’t. However, if one wants to exceed beyond the role of the common voter, they can have an effect on the government. One can attempt to convince thousands of people in a swing state to vote for a certain candidate, one can schmooze their way into the government and create a difference there, and one can organize something opposing a policy that creates the illusion that that policy’s distasteful, without even knowing it. If I wanted to stop abortions, I would hire a girl whose pregnancy surpasses legal abortion standards, tell her to bribe a doctor
