How is it that we managed to abolish slavery? How do we have an age of consent? How do we have minimum wage? Everyone in power is evil and hates us, but why are women still allowed to vote? How come minimum wage hasn’t lowered or been removed entirely?
And more importantly, how do we get good things to happen again? Because it seems like no matter where someone is on the political spectrum, THEY’RE ALL EVIL and they hate us. (And even if they didn’t, they’re still controlled by evil billionares.)
Exactly! If you offer even a hint of varying from locally accepted gospel, the teeming masses immediately click the down arrow to do their bit for social justice without bothering to read further. OP might have done better with something like, “In a system that’s undeniably evil, how do occasional good things slip through the cracks?”