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Professor Larry Lessig has outlined at length how elections are corrupt, and we've watched the courts get so corrupt, well that Citizens United, Loper Bright and Trump v. US 2024 were able to be ruled without intervention from a psychiatric ward.
The thing is, courts are an alternative to settling civil and social disputes with violence. And elections allow for the peaceful transfer of power (e.g. without violence).
So if both the courts and elections are subverted (they are) violence becomes the default way by which regimes are ousted and laws are changed.
The reason we tried to set up democracy in the first place was all the Game of Thrones shit. It seems the ownership class never got the memo how bad it gets.
They haven't forgot, they're just pushing it as far as they can, and a frustrated, exhausted, pacified populace has let it happen.