Hell, I make no claims on how to solve this problem. But I can honestly claim I know for a fact who's caused it.

But having said that, I do have one suggestion. Make it illegal (or at least) as difficult as possible to keep moneyed interests from controlling the political process by campaign contributions and lobbying. With their resources they can bypass, and to a certain extent, even mold public opinion. They can even influence academia to teach an "Economics" science whose major axiom seems to be, "Leave Capital Alone, the mighty Scientific Laws of Economics will ensure they will only do the Right Thing in the end".

Only the popular vote should determine whether a politician is elected or not. Money must be banished from the process. Other democratic countries have done it, why can't we?

Yeah, democracy doesn't always work. But letting the Capitalist write the rules of the game will never work. Just the usual boom, then bust. This cycle was somewhat attenuated after the New Deal, but more and more we are sliding back into a Gilded Age, a turn of the century explosion of entrepreneurial frenzy and great riches, but a sordid cesspool of poverty and misery and dark, satanic mills.