I think things will get better. I don't think you have much of a choice, unless you're willing to just head into war every day, all day. Electoral politics on the local level seems to bear more fruit than many, many times on the national level. But i'm not going to tell you that electoral politics is going to make thing better. A lot of people will say, just vote em out if you don't like em. May not work, but that doesn't mean that smashing the windows of the amazon store in seattle is going to enact the type of a social change you want.