Glad you have come to your senses. The way I understand it the dems went to the dark side of pro oligarchy in the 70s when they decided we can get that no at too.
At times we have had elected officials who work for voters. Most of the time ike did. Fdr did. Teddy did. Some in Congress have. The enrichment from elected office thing is relatively new.
What I want to see is the effective end of the electoral college. I want either a mechanism to allow a min of 5 parties to be relevant or my preference no parties at all. I also want term limits in Congress and scotus. I want age limits in all 3 branches. I want money out of politics and biblically financed elections. With these changes all the problems will be settled out on their own.