NSA official: mass spying has foiled one (or fewer) plots in its whole history

That one chart - there were others, you might remember - showed the changes seem to depend on who is in the presidential office. You just asserted that they really should depend on congress instead, and then showed that’s wrong, so concluded they depend on neither. I really doubt you would have accepted that as an honest argument from me.

Anyway, you’ve made positive assertions too:

Do you have evidence that voting actually keeps people from doing anything more meaningful - most activists I have seen do both - or is actually responsible for any of our problems? Because it seems entirely made up so far.