[thecombjelly]

At that point it seems you would have just promoted politicians in to the capital class without the middle-person, but again they now represent the capital class and all their non-politician capital class buddies at the cocktail parties, instead of representing those without much capital.

[ianai]

They’re already there. And in order to obtain and maintain that status they chose special interests over constituent needs. Lobbyists pay better than the people.