The FDA is emphatically not a democratic institution. Who exactly do I vote for if I disagree with FDA policy? Can a civil service FDA employee be fired on the grounds of supporting a particular wildly unpopular policy?
Of course the FDA is not, itself, a democratic instution. But then neither is your local police department or NASA. The reason those institutions are accepted despite the lack of direct democratic accountability is because they are still situated within the larger democratic institution (the US government) and subject to oversight by those elected representatives.
If you hate the FDA your best bet is to lobby against it yourself (or help others that do). Its to much of an in-the-weeds issue for it to be a high priority for most lawmakers (unless maybe you live in a district with a lot of businesses regulated by FDA)
> deliberate misreading of the parent comment
> Of course the FDA is not, itself, a democratic instution.
Can't tell if doublethink or just motte-and-bailey.
What, if anything, are we supposed to get out of your comment, which seems to question the value of critical reading?
Sneering without reason brings the quality of discussion down on this site. Either substantively disagree or move on.
The point is that its not really relevant to the point they are making, which is that the FDA as an institution has some weird incentives.
> motte-and-bailey.
I'm not familiar with this idiom so I cant say.