What an idiotic article.  &quot;Democracy doesn&#x27;t work. &quot; So the authors wouldn&#x27;t mind if the US became a dictatorship?<p>One reason that democracy works vastly better than authoritarian government is that the public agrees on a lot of things.  For instance, the public in the US disapproves of governmental corruption, and so it is far lower than in authoritarian countries like Putin&#x27;s Russia.<p>Oh, and if the authors think that informing the public doesn&#x27;t work, then why are they working for a media organization is, guess what, informing the public?