This country is getting far away from a democracy. In fact, because of all the laws and rulings that are giving preferential treatment to rich corporations we are moving farther and farther towards a corporate oligarchy.
The issue with net neutrality is another sickening symptom of what is happening. Like the good doctor I have no sympathy for "we the people" because too many of us have forgotten the power we hold.
Net Neutrality is a perfect example for why off year elections matter just as much as Presidential elections. Democrats just do not turn out and vote in midterms.
There's very little a good President can do when Congress is incapable of acting in any way. Hell the Senate just voted to increase the minimum wage in America to $10.10 an hour over the course of the next couple of years and even though a majority voted YES the Republicans, naturally, filibustered the vote, so it still failed because it wasn't a filibuster proof Super Majority of votes.
Because you have people like, let's take Marsha Blackburn who is on the House Budget Committee and from my state of Tennessee. She is against raising the minimum wage, and in an argument last year she used an example of how she only made 2.00 an hour at her first job and that wage was just right and taught her to value her interaction with customers.
Well she apparently forgot about inflation because for her age, if you assume her first job was when she was 16 then her $2.00 an hour wage for the time would be the equivalent of making $14.00 an hour today due to inflation.
So she used an example of making twice the minimum wage as a reason to not raise the minimum wage, and she'll probably be re-elected again.
Congress has approval ratings in the single digits, yet and incumbents have over an 80% chance of being re-elected.
Its not that democracy doesn't work or the US is moving away from it, it's that the American people at large are apathetic, stupid, and lazy.