The article revolves a lot around the "how" and "why" but does not really answer it's own title. We thought we have the answer right there: in democracies, the people delegates working out the rules to a group of elected people. The rules then are enforced by another, independent group of people. Currently this seems to be broken in (not only) the USA.

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ozgung 8 hours ago | parent | next [-]

The answer is: historically the incumbents define the rules and use safety as an excuse to build their moats by gaining exclusive rights and they end up being cartel/monopolies.

It’s a rhetorical question.

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slopinthebag 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

this has always been broken

	▲	kreyenborgi 7 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Broken is a spectrum, not binary. (Some years ago, people argued that "it's already broken so voting in the crazy guy who wants to shake things up will flip the switch from broken to non-broken". But they were wrong.)
	▲	atoav 6 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		For varying definitions of broken. I know multiple people from broken regions of the world, who would dream to have it like the US. Then there are others who claim their system is broken and only a protest vote will send the sign, while where they live has one of thr highest standards of living in the world. The absolute level of broken is mostly irrelevant, what counts is the direction of travel.