All societies are an equilibrium of forces or power, not rational designs. For example policy on home…

All societies are an equilibrium of forces or power, not rational designs. For example policy on home ownership will reflect those who have power in that area, like developers and existing homeowners. For Covid, nearly everybody is being allowed to become infected. /1

This reflects the fact that a tiny handful of vested interests have captured democracies. Nobody except this tiny handful is being spared infection. They’re doing it by gaming elections. Popularity is just marketing, child’s play to manipulate. Funding to ambitious pollies…/2

…is the loophole that lets them in. Elections are democracy’s unfixable weak link. Vested interests will define democracy *as* elections. Duh. 3/3