Yep. We have two classes-- The rich and powerful and everyone else. The rich and powerful control the Federal Government in the US. All the commoners get to do is elect their nominated representatives as it takes a lot of money to run a successful campaign at the federal level.<p>The majority of elected representatives will not dare alienate their biggest sources of campaign funding as it will mean they won&#x27;t get re-elected during the next election cycle. I suppose that there are some congressmen and senators which have the financial resources to avoid this, but they tend also to side with the rich and powerful.<p>Short of a second constitutional convention, or an article V convention, I don&#x27;t see this changing any time soon, and both of these types of conventions have pretty good reasons to be avoided as they could end up consolidating the power of the rich and powerful even more.