So, the system favors picking wealthy candidates. Now, do you think wealthy candidates are more in favor of having their friends' and family's interests served in Washington, or more in favor of having the poor's interests served?
A system that picks rich people for positions of power, where they then use that power to hold onto the power, and do favors for their rich friends and colleagues is a system that is rigged for the benefit of the wealthy. If this is not brought to the attention of the rest of the citizens, and not acted on, the people in power will slowly be able to erode at the democratic process and subtlety make it even more in their favor.
So I will ask again, if we aren't able to rally against the 1% to get positive change done, how do we go about it? Quiet behinds the scenes talks, rich people speaking with other rich people on how they should go about restructuring the tax code? That doesn't sound like democracy to me.