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Yep, the entire system is built to give the illusion that it's capable of change, while giving all of the reigns to Capital.
A fantastic book covering the American political system, is "Democracy Inc" by Sheldon S. Wolin, which wrote about how the system is constructed to give the semblance of democratic participation but, is in fact, what he terms a "managed democracy", in which the levers of the democratic processes are manipulated to a minute degree. He wrote this book in ~2006, I believe, which just goes to show how long this horse and pony show has been going on for (probably FAR longer).
It's been going on since the conception of the US Electoral system, that's what it's been designed to do from the beginning.