Pennies on the dollar, sure. We vote once every 4 years for someone who we hope won't murder our children in their beds, but billions of times every day for those who do. If you want Change, keep it in your pocket.

Then again, a penny on one side of the cocaine scale, and there are a lot of variables anchored in a very violent and shady past American Empire, and then there's the 'fight wars over there before they come here' philosophy, and as a Cold War Navy vet, I saw some of that. They call it "Power Projection".