The underlying philosophy embedded in your statement is part of the issue in America in recent years: people have become apathetic. A representative government

The underlying philosophy embedded in your statement is part of the issue in America in recent years: people have become apathetic. A representative government isn't a one time and you're done deal. It requires lots of people to genuinely put time and effort into it. Multiple times in the US'es history we've had even more greed, corruption, poverty, etc, but protests and social movements helped reset the needle. Things like normalizing 8 hour work shifts had to be fought for. Currently both major parties get away with a lot of what they do because most of us don't participate and force both sides to answer questions and be accountable. Like, I think pushing for non-winner takes all voting at some levels would be good. But I don't goto local party events or involve myself, so I can't complain too much.