So long as it costs a fortune to get elected, politicians will work to curry favor with the elite and never the plebs.
Surprisingly, all you have to do as a politician is keep calling the government a “democracy” and foolish plebs will still believe they have a voice. They will continue to do this even when every action of the government proves that the opposite is true.
It blows my mind how effective the misdirection is and how stupid/gullible most people are.