Yes, but those flaws are not simply among the people these criticisms are leveled at.

Technocratic autocracy created the issues, but the response is typically "so add more technocratic autocracy".

It's not just those evil billionaires (read, people in the .1 percent whereas being on HN makes you highly likely to be in the 1%) manipulating society, it's Good, Honest, Educated professionals who are making incorrect or reactionary decisions regularly and doubling down when called on it.

Sure, but a major flaw of the American system is that it's deliberately pushing its people into being distrustful of the system (and each other). Not trusting the government, or wanting to make it less effective, is considered a virtue in many parts of America. (And it's not just the conservatives.)

Just because X is bad doesn’t imply Y isn’t worse