Lessig in books and talks explained it very well, why reliance on money - people and corps funding parties and candidates - in elections keep the elections elit

Lessig in books and talks explained it very well, why reliance on money - people and corps funding parties and candidates - in elections keep the elections elitist and undemocratic. It needed reform and it still needs reform, more than ever. I naively hoped that his well laid out arguments would make a difference, but here we are much later and it didn't help a single bit.