Why aren't people voting? Is it because they know that no matter who gets voted in, nothing is going to change? Is it because they hear some politician make all these futile campaign promises, knowing for a fact that he/she can't get 5% of them passed, yet the guy gets voted in anyways? Watch some incumbent get voted in year after year, basically because voters know his name, or just assume he's doing a good job, so they vote for him anyways? How about the voter who is so entrenched with a particular party affiliation, that they walk into the voting both, press "Vote Republican Party" or "Vote Democratic Party", then walk out totally clueless who they voted for? How about the voters who say "Why bother. The incumbent so-and-so is going to get elected, even if I vote or not"? Texas is so blatently Republican, that it is an effort in futility to vote for a Democratic nominee for President. Texas hasn't given its electoral votes to a Democrat since Nixon. So hey, what's the point?
No government has completely taken over every aspect of your life. There are laws they have passed, maybe laws that have been circumvented LEGALLY that you disagree with. But that doesn't imply a "takeover". Government can't satisfy everyone. For every law you feel has been broken, there are a few hundred others that don't see it that way. It's called "legal interpretation". If Obama has blatently broken all these "laws" you claimed he has, why hasn't Bonehead and Co. brought impeachment charges? Apparently no legal precedent has been broken. The House is trying to vilify Holder for Fast and Furious, and legally Holder can just hold up the middle finger and smile.