Yes, but most of what you point out here comes from a cultural expectation that government take an ever increasing parental role over the lives of citizens. Voting isn't the only solution.

Take Bitcoin, for example. It's been around 15 years. It takes power away from central banks and pretty much renders the politicians we allegedly hate so much impotent.

But people aren't tripping over themselves to adopt it because most aren't even looking for a way out.

You ever seen what happens when a politician from any party in the US starts talking about axing medicare/medicaid/social security? People demanded a nanny state and they got it.

Yes, most of that happened before we were born, but people today enable it. We enable politicians by going along with it. Political structures only matter if enough people support it either outright or by inaction.

These aren't simple issues, but my point is that blaming politicians without addressing the root disease is intellectually dishonest. We don't get to go vote and choose to go along with the status quo while blaming the consequences on other people.

My position is that politics can never fix these issues because it's exactly what broke things. And that was by choices the American people made when voting.

I also reject the notion that good and bad should be separated from politics, but I will agree that those terms should be more specific to define what one means by them, since they indeed are elementary.