Our status quo is a corporatist machine that puts the US govt at the service of huge multinational corporate conglomerates.
The corruption at this point is systemic. The status quo will not disrupt itself.
Only an intervention by the people will fundamental alter the pattern.
Insurance, Big Pharma, Big Ag, Big Food, Big Chem, gun manufacturers, Big Oil, defense contractors: our corporate aristocracy.
They get their short term profits first. Then, whatever crumbs are left are dropped down from their economic Mt. Olympus to the struggling serfs below.