This is a good illustration for why I feel democracy is fundamentally broken.<p>Democracy requires a large number of people to agree on on party&#x2F;person and to reach these people and to convince them to vote for your candidate, you have to spend tons of money. Either:<p>A) You use your own money. Which means you fall under &quot;the financial elite&quot;.<p>B) You take money from financial elites, which means you will owe them and pay back in some form. Why else would they give you their precious money?<p>Thus the power remains restricted to the the financial elite. The elected candidate represents the elites more than the common person because while the common person just gave the candidate a singular vote, the investor gave the candidate much needed money that helped gather all those votes