You know how sometimes a corporation buys all of it’s competitors but keeps them in business? And it creates a false facade of competition? What if they bought

You know how sometimes a corporation buys all of it’s competitors but keeps them in business? And it creates a false facade of competition? What if they bought the government and did the same thing? Well, consider it done. And the joke is on you for as long as you let it. You, like most Americans tend to do, are failing to understand the democratic concept and the responsibilities it must entail. A healthy democracy is very possible. It requires 2 basic things: - An fair and flat electoral process with sufficient protections against financial and propagandistic inequalities. - An engaged and educated populace, elections produce politicians who serve the electorate. The second one is a catch-22. An educated populace requires quality education requires a healthy democracy. for that reason, when things go wrong, they are extremely hard to get right again. This is why public education and a focus on humanities has such a deep legacy in the history of building democracies. Without both, short-sighted and/or self-interested thinking like yours will doom the arrangement.