Between gerrymandering, vote buying, disinformation, foreign interference and a host of local and often illegal ratfuckery tactics, the rich set up a system to keep themselves in power and the rest of do not have a say in the matter.

That's a why no major policy outcomes have reflected public opinion since the civil rights era.

I do not think future historians are going to blame the poor for the crimes of the rich and I don't think they'll be fooled into thinking that we've been living in a democracy.