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"Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires" - John Steinbeck
They do want to serve him, but they're stuck in that 1990's head-space where you can walk into a company, stab a few people in the back, stay late every day and become a VP in a decade. They have no idea that the wealth/power has been vacuumed up to the point that you can't just sycophant your way to the top.
Because the rich own the government via the two party circus.
They’d still own it with a three or four or five party system, or a no party system.
It's a principal agent problem. With liquid democracy they'd need to bribe literally everyone.