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There is an old axiom, which states that you can’t fight city hall. It’s not the elected officials who are in charge, they are merely a series of ever-changing sock puppet heads on the hand that controls the economy.
Let’s give the hand a name, we’ll call it the “organization” and it’s made up of upper and middle managers who manipulate policy and put the requisite documents before the elected official who signs whatever he or she is told. Seldom does the official bother to read the reams of boilerplate generated to support the document requiring a signature.
Most sock puppet heads, we’ll call the politicians, (a name derived from “poly” meaning many, and tics, blood-sucking parasites) only exist to be elected and campaign to be elected. Essentially, they are nothing more than entertainers.
The management of the organization is safe from removal by elections, which only affects the sock puppet heads, and continues rolling along raping the pockets of the public who are powerless to effect any change short of a bloody revolution, which is highly unlikely when one considers the the same power structure exists within the police departments and the military; besides, they have all the bombs, machine guns, and riot gear needed to quell any uprising.
In essence, like every version of democracy since the first on in Athens Greece, our system has been corrupted by those few, the power brokers, who have found a way to manipulate the system for their own purposes at the sufferance of the many.
Getting angry won’t help. Electing a new sock puppet head won’t help.
If you’re looking for a solution, good luck!