| There is nothing “democratic” about the US government. It was never designed that way. The President is not elected by the people. He is elected by the electoral college giving people in less populous states more power than people in more populous states. We saw that in the last election. The Senate does not represent the people. It represents the states. Every state has two Senators regardless of the population. Again meaning the flyover states have far more voting power than their population would warrant. The judiciary is appointed by the President who isn’t elected by the people and decided by the Senate who doesn’t represent the people and have lifetime appointments. The only part of the US government that is nominally “democratic” is the House and they are the least powerful part of the government and even they don’t represent the will of the people because of gerrymandering. So put all of that together, the less power the government has the better. Why not just nationalize both Apple and Google so the government can come up with “Five Year Plans” to design the perfect phone? The same government run by politicians who didn’t realize that Zuckerberg didn’t run Twitter last week. We see with what’s happening with TikTok what happens when corrupt politicians who are more interested in their own agenda gets involved in the free market. This isn’t partisan. The entire political system is corrupt. |