People care when their drinking water is contaminated with lead. They care if their medicines aren’t safe and effective, or if somebody takes all the money out of their investment accounts. Those things don’t make people happy. Yet it’s administrative agencies that are guarding against that and protecting their rights. So when the Supreme Court starts to dismantle important features of these agencies, it matters because it’s destabilizing a really important part of government

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    You vote for the Supreme Court every time you vote. The people you elect appoint justices who work their way up,and approve justices in Congress. Local elections matter. Even there you are either voting for people who are working their way up or appoint other judges.

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        Probably because you don’t vote in the primaries. That’s where people with more fringe ideas are located. Vote them up if they share your fringe idea. You can complain about the “system” all you want, the people who run the system were put there through primaries and generals. Learn how to use the tools available to you.

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          The primaries were decided mathematically before my state got a chance to vote. My primary vote didn’t matter this year and this isn’t the first time this has happened. Downballot all the usual suspects won as well since turnout is always lower when this happens.