bro, you cant give up.
Get involved in your community and work with organizers, activists, union, etc.
These politicians are clowns, and its largely because we aren't active and in with the people.
That requires a lot of time and energy and it's extremely difficult to not think you're spinning your wheels in mud
If someone is employed in that field then that's one thing but it's a tough sell to someone with a "regular job" to do all that stuff in addition to that and their family/social life just to get these type of results