One more Espresso shot

As in rule by the rich; not having to do with aliens from the now reclassified dwarf planet.

As we are teetering on the brink of a Representative Plutocracy, my mind wanders to a short story (or back-story, or something like that) I read a while ago. A long while, as the only bit I remember is this:
Megacorps purchased people's votes. For the vote, they housed the person. Room and Board. No need to work. Live in the dorm, eat three meals a day. All for the low low price of your right to participate in government.

Representative Plutocracy, being in my mind really just a plutocracy, but trying to appear as a representation government. Really, when the vast majority of people who are elected and the eventual nomination receivers are already rich, do they really represent the people? I am sure a few of them start with the best of intentions. Then they get into politics and see that they actually cannot do any good. "You want medical help for the poor? Sure, I will vote for that if you just vote for my neighborhood to get a billion dollar moving sidewalk with a no bid contract for my wife's brother's contracting firm, and only if your bill does not use the word taxes. My 'constituents' do not like the word taxes. Wait, hold that thought for a moment, I see a reporter and I need to mention how much I love the baby Jesus and how I do not believe in evolution."

How much easier would it be if they just came out and said it? "We don't care about you. We only care that you vote for one of the two primary parties so that we stay in control and that we get your money."

Isn't there a big reset button? Can't we have a vote of No Confidence in the whole damn group? All of them, all the senators, all the reps, the president, veep, and cabinet. All fired. No elections, no money in the campaigns. All people given air-time to debate. And really debate, not this horrid little game of political double-speak. I want to see them get angry with each-other. I want to see them lose their cool. I want to see them answer the damn questions! I want to see someone look at the other people and say, "Did you really just say X? Are you stupid? Do you actually know what the implications of X really are?"

Most societies die from within. Nero said let it burn. Maybe he was right. Except that would be burning the beautiful things too. Art, poetry, books, nature. We do not want to burn those.