Well, do you want to risk your life fighting in a revolution?
Politics certainly doesn't matter in the sense that it's all bullshit anyway. No matter how hard you call "your" representatives, they won't give a flying fuck about you because they're all psychopaths.
> What we have in protections and freedoms
.. Was apparently nothing in terms of "protections" at all, considering here we are again.
Look, the real problem is that political power exists at all. If people didn't believe that they need to be ruled over, we wouldn't have all the problems caused by government, and you wouldn't need to preach at people about not having already overthrown the government when they "still had time".
How about just stopping this insane cycle of tyranny --> relative freedom --> tyranny --> relative freedom .. this-time-it's-different-if-i-just-vote-harder?
Rather than asking the government to grant you better "protections" from itself, how about just removing the need for protections altogether?