> Blaming bureaucrats is not helpful.

Bureaucrats are the ones making the rules of the game we have to play. So why shouldn't we blame them?

Chain of events is the lobbyists write the policies that are handed to the politicians who vote them in, then to the bureaucrats to execute them.

But the lobbyists work for the rich and the power. They are ultimately the chefs and ones who decide what the rules will be.

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FirmwareBurner 3 days ago | parent [-]

You are correct. But I don't see how we can fix this. Revolutions or rioting, is not the right idea either.

A successful and well functioning democracy requires constant monitoring, involvement and pressure from citizens to hold it accountable, otherwise it gets captured by monopolies and malicious actors with money, who will steer politics in their favor instead of the citizens' favor.

The problem with that is that most citizens today are too burdened by the cost of living and sorting their own lives to have time and energy for political activism. The only ones who do are retired boomers and they only care that their pensions and house prices are going up.

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lokar 3 days ago | parent [-]

Democracies can and do correct. It takes time and effort, but it happens. For example the progressive movement in the US.

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FirmwareBurner 3 days ago | parent [-]

>Democracies can and do correct.

Yes, but when you ignore citizens' demands for too long, they will then over-correct in the opposite direction: see Hitler, Brexit, Trump, AFD, LePenn, Meloni, etc. History has proved this to be correct 100% of the time.

>For example the progressive movement in the US

Can you provide more details, I'm not an US citizen.

	▲	lokar 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_Era