An elected legislature is a pipe dream in a country with gerrymandering.

Forget gerrymandering, a representative government is impossible as long as the Senate still gives the same weight to the 15 people in North Dakota as it does the 40 million in California.

It's the least bad system.

It's legalized corruption to the max. It's the worst implementation of the least bad system.

If the U.S. is leading the world's economy with high standards of living, maybe it is only a bad implementation in some aspects but not all.