The same way businesses are under market pressures of consumer choice, governments are under political pressures of voters choice.
In practice, us plebs are chosing between two or three nearly equally shitty viable political parties, or between two or three quasi monopolies of corporate conglomerates. They both manifest the same corrosive phenomena: consolidation and concentraton of power, accelerated by their ensuing reinforsemenr feedback-loops.
One point in which I concede the free market scores a point over democratic system is that we vote with our money in way more frequent and granular maner than we get to do through elections and plebicites.
The truth is both big business and big government eventually form an unwrittent mutually-beneficial aliance. Big companies fund big parties, and big parties apease big business.
I can't point to a perfect solution, but at least the general direction that seems to at least retard the speed of that movement is fragmentation. Buy from small, local businesses, avoid monopolies and give left-field political parties and candidates a chance / rely less on centralized governmental agencies and more in bottom up grass roots organizations (unions, cooperatives, guilds, non-profits, etc...) Those are often less convenient, though, so as good the bitches that we are, we rarely opt to them. I include myself as guilty for conceding to convenience way more often than I should.
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