I agree.  The whole thing, because of the money, is doomed.  People who wish to do good, cannot.  Democracy cannot work with great disparity in wealth.  This cannot be fixed as long as a few people, like in really a FEW, control 90% of all the money and power.    There's no way we can make it anything but what it is, an oligarchy.  And because no one is going to give up wealth willingly, and because they can train the military on the people, we're stuck with what we've got until something very big changes.

I've often heard that if we took all the money and possessions and power, and divided them up among everyone, within a short time a small percentage would again gain control of both.  I believe that.   There is a percentage of the population who want power and will be human moral sewers to gain it.  And they are quite intelligent.  We don't have systemic or procedural answers for them, and we never will.