Of course you have a say we all do, we vote every 4-5 years on who we want in power according to who we think will represent us the best, if we do not like it we have a say or vote different next time, we are all taxpayers Matt (hopefully) and there is a certain proportion of our (collective) money that goes on things we like and don,t like and everyone has a view on this.
People today as in the past joined the forces to fight for their country and vowed to obey the rules and regulations at the time, so people did not understand what was happening at the time and took action with what they had, if this was wrong as some people now perceive, what next, how far do we go before things get senseless and spend even more of the taxpayers money.