Consequently, who they select to represent us is really of no serious consequence whatsoever.Since the government seems to be little more than a means to redistribute wealth now, all that changes from administration to administration is hwo is robbed and who is gifted.
I recall something someone said about the discovery that you can vote yourself funds from the public coffer and how this will doom any democracy (I think that was the phrasing). All that remains is to determine what form our government will take while still claiming to be a "democratic republic".