Yes! Indirect plutocracy; plutocracy with extra steps. The rich buy up the media and the media tell people how to vote. On the one hand, the power of the rich is constrained. They have to use propaganda and fear to manufacture consent. But on the other hand, the flames don't burn up the puppet strings. They dodge the blame when their polices fail.
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USA is a REPUBLIC and uses representative voters
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This link https://www.britannica.com/topic/Seventeenth-Amendment is very optimistic about how the 17th was supposed to work out. Hasn't aged well.
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