Why bother voting?

It's so easy to feel discouraged, to fall on the side of apathy. It's so effortless to say screw it, the politicians don't care about me, they are beholden to special interests. They break promises, compromise away, and lie. But at the end of the day, no matter how flawed our system is, we still live in a representative democracy, where we get to elect our representatives at all levels of government into office to represent our interests. For without people "demos" participating in the process, there can be no democracy.