This is the heart of the problem, why there has been no significant reform, no meaningful programs of infrastructure rebuilding, and why the US is suffering this mysterious, secular stagnation.
Part of it is the credibility trap. How can long time insiders talk meaningfully about reform, when they were very much a part of the things, the changes, the repeal of long time safeguards and reforms from the past that created the problems?
They thought they were voting for change, and instead the two party system gave them another stooge of Big money. And the Congress, despite record low approval ratings, does not seem all that concerned. How can this be?
Big money owns Washington, and they like things exactly the way that they are.
