Well, what else should representative democracy be? It's a small number of full time legislators representing a larger population. Calling it a corporate democr

Well, what else should representative democracy be? It's a small number of full time legislators representing a larger population. Calling it a corporate democracy veils it in cynicism. If it want to represent my electorate in a parliament, I can stand at the next election (or ideally, I can attempt to initiate a recall election for the sitting member). Indeed, there is nothing in a well run representative democracy to prevent me from picking anyone who puts their hand up as a candidate. I think the problems you are referring to with representation are overwhelming concentrated in the United States. The U.S. does have problems with ballot access, voting systems, electorate size, etc., but those are problems with an implementation of representative democracy, and can, if anyone is willing to, be fixed.