That's always been precisely the point of our "representative" government: to enable the nation's elite (first the American plutocracy, now the globalist/Zionist international Cabal) to rule over the people THROUGH their bought and paid for FLUNKIES, whom the citizens are generously allowed to "vote" for. But it wouldn't be a very good marketing strategy to call it exactly what it really is--ELECTIVE OLIGARCHY--now would it?