A vote is "wasted" when someone fails to vote their conscience.
Governments are run by people. People can be bad.
My attitude when I'm in Mexico is I wake up in the morning with nothing to do and I go to bed half done. I don't wear a watch. When I live down there, I do nothing according to time. I eat when I'm hungry and go to sleep when I'm tired.
Government is connected to everything we do.
Some felt I'm not academically qualified, and they're right.
In the United States, if you buy a property and you're a good citizen, and you improve that property, what do they do to you? They tax you more. So they penalize you for good behavior.