In a Republic, the interests of citizens are represented in their legislature by representatives, rather than individually and the United States of America is a Republic. That’s our centuries old system and when many people are represented by a few, the integrity of the few always comes into question. So our present state is not something new. Over a hundred years ago, Mark Twain wrote It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress Many presidents have run on trust-busting platforms, from Teddy Roosevelt (who actually busted them) to Barack Obama (who seems to have joined their team). So we still have money outperforming the public interest. The difference