The U.S. is a corpocracy.
Professors Martin Gilens of Princeton University and Benjamin Page of Northwestern University looked at more than 20 years of data to answer  the question: Is the U.S. a democracy.
Their study took data from nearly 2,000 public-opinion surveys and compared what the people wanted to what the government actually did. What they found was that the opinions of the bottom 90% of income earners in America have essentially no impact at all.
In their own words: “The preferences of the average American appear to have only a minuscule, near-zero, statistically non-significant impact upon public policy."
Gilens and Page found that economic elites, business interests, and people who can afford lobbyists still carry major influence.