Citizens Are Product Stakeholders

Over the past several years, many problems have started to bubble up at the federal level due to design flaws with our system of government. Some issues were on full display the last couple months, culminating in challenges within Congress, protests on the streets, and, ultimately, chaos and riots at the Capitol. After so many years of living within this same system, we are almost trained to immediately discount its flaws — these bugs in the system — and accept their inclusion as a cost of doing business. We give up rights in exchange for convenience and feelings of safety. We ignore the fact that…