Ergo, the Deep State runs things. And the Deep State exerts significant control over the electoral system so as to elect politicians who support big government (i.e., Democrats).
Because they make *MONEY* from controlling the government. All that graft, corruption, bribery, selling of influence, administering government programs and so forth, all of that enriches the cartel that administers these programs and the companies that buy congressmen and also the congressmen themselves.
How did AOC go from completely poor to now worth 10s of millions of dollars? How did Nancy Pelosi get 120 million as a congresswoman?
They do favors for corporations, foreign governments, foreign corporations, and anyone else who bribes them.
The system is rotten, and it has been rotten going back at least to the 1850s, and probably all the way back to the 1820s.