While, we like to believe that the United States government is a government, of, for, and by the people; the fact of the matter is that representation for those of modest means is few in number, and therefore average Americans are underrepresented and therefore lack the power and the necessary influence to effect change. For instance, a significant amount of Americans are people that make a middle class income, and/or constantly struggle to make ends meet, but through their perseverance and pluck they are able to get by, day-by-day. These salt-of-the-earth Americans typically suffer from a paucity of numbers at the highest levels of meaningful governance, despite their relevancy and the necessity for their voice to actually be heard for the good of the people, in whole.
Not too surprisingly, those that have money and power, gravitate to positions that will at a minimum allow them to keep those riches secure; if not to outright augment what they already have, so as to lockdown and to secure their dynastic power, even so for generations. So then, in the arena of politics in which money plays an outsized role in the propositions, legislation, and the representatives, so put into play, those that have that money make sure that such is utilized quite effectively; and those that are in powerful positions, are quite skilled in consolidating and often increasing their power, all the more.
Yet, the sheer number of those that are rich -- pales in comparison to those that are not; so that the ever increasing amount of wealth being held in that small minority of hands, seems to indicate that despite the fact that each citizen is equally enfranchised for the vote; that somehow the laws, the legislation, the taxation, and the like are sickly skewed to favor those that already have everything that they could ever conceivably need in order to live a very good and superior life, leaving those without, with even less -- in this the land of egalitarianism, and the supposed enemy of nobility and titles or its equivalency.
This signifies that in America, that for all intents and purposes, this land and thereby its governance is run almost exclusively by those that have the power and the money, of which we see the aftereffects of this by the high degree of poverty of our own citizens in this the richest nation the world has ever known, as well as so shown by the multitude of additional Americans that are constantly vulnerable to financial catastrophe should they be laid off, or suffer ill health, or be hit with some other unexpected negative event.
It would be one thing, if the superrich simply just enjoyed their wealth; but perhaps there is something more sinister that is happening, for there seems to be a correlation between those that are massively wealthy and the corresponding poverty and underclass which subsists and exists in America, of which, the only fair conclusion to reach is that far too many of those that are rich and powerful, get what they claim is theirs, by their outright exploitation of their fellow countrymen. So, the rich oppress the poor, for the benefit of the rich; and the only conceivable institution that can stand up to the superrich, is this government, of, by and for the people, which does next to nothing to fundamentally change what needs to be changed so as to ameliorate the poverty and the lack of fair opportunity for its people, because that government is clearly under the aegis of the rich and powerful.