I don't know why you were downvoted but your comment is as if I wrote "The U.S. has the highest incarceration rate in the world. I feel like in other modern de

I don't know why you were downvoted but your comment is as if I wrote "The U.S. has the highest incarceration rate in the world. I feel like in other modern democratic governments in the world the government would step in and sort out the incarceration rate." It raises the question why you think the government would stop doing "Bad thing" if that's what the voters want.