If there is any truth in this world it is that shareholders absolutely call the shots. Anyone with any experience in finance can produce tens of thousands of examples of this - from shareholder lawsuits, to activist investors, to hostile takeovers, to board shakeups... The list goes on and on and on and on...
99% of them are totally against the swamp, yet the swamp continues.
Voting doesn't matter if there's no real ability to vote for real change.