I am no one's pawn.No. But here's what you'll be facing, though you may not agree with the examples:
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/johann-hari/johann-hari-this-corruption-in-washington-is-smothering-americas-future-1882349.htmlMaybe not so bad at Town Hall level, but the ability for an individual to exert change against the entrenched powerful is all but gone in most places. It caused a revolution once before. Maybe if you change your name to something like "Marcia Benedict-Arnold-Akins," people would flock to you. ;-)
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
