What it amounts to is that the USA was set up to be a democracy, but it has since been derailed by the influence of Big Money on the political process. What has resulted is a govermment "of the rich, by the rich, for the rich". As long as most of the non-rich can be bamboozled into continuing to cast their votes for either the Democrats or the Republicans that situation will endure. Given the fact that money controls everything that happens, it's hard to see how that situation can be changed. A complete collapse of the US financial system and the US dollar itself to where the money would become valueless would change it...but I don't think any of us are particularly eager to live through that. I know I'm not.

I think that this society will either wake up...and change radically in order to revitalize itself...or it will slowly decline, and be supplanted in time by a new power (likely China)...or it will, in its decline, slide into the folly of a major war. The last of those 3 possibilities would be the worst by far. Let's hope it wakes up instead, and stops just worshipping money for money's sake alone.

Money was made to serve people, not the other way around. The same goes for government.