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Sure, it has the "ability," but the odds are stacked against any systematic change either way. If one views the current system as flawed, you can blame the public for not getting off their asses and doing something about it, but it's not their fault that the flawed system exists and will likely continue to exist.
But it is, because the voting public has always had the power to vote the people who run the system out.
Look, you know you can find out what you need to, and you can exercise your vote, right? Regardless of any ad campaigns or media coverage or anything else?
So can everyone else.
If they don't, there's no one else to blame.
Which is why we have the government we deserve. If we act as informed, involved citizens, then things change (I suppose according to the "better" of the majority). If we don't, then we're complicit.