The US, for all its democratic ideals, has some weird cases of "The vast majority of us all agree that this is a bad outcome, but we aren't ever going to change

The US, for all its democratic ideals, has some weird cases of "The vast majority of us all agree that this is a bad outcome, but we aren't ever going to change anything meaningful about it." This is one of them; seemingly nobody can do anything about the overreaching child-protection agents, or the busybody neighbors, or the lousy suburban neighborhood design, or the frenetic activity-planning. Why not??