This type of logic is always so paradoxical. You, after all, wrote this article because you know that words and conversations are powerful. And I'm responding to you because I also know that words are powerful.

After all, the people who do everything behind those closed doors are ultimately elected and enabled by the crowds, whose opinions were ultimately influenced by the conversations they heard, which is ultimately driven largely by the media.

You can think of each conversation or journalistic article as a vote on how the world gets done. Each conversation / vote plays only a small role, but it is ultimately the foundation for how everything gets done.