The election system has been corrupted for a long time. It is just far more so than it has been before. Why not, they get away with it...
That doesn't mean the concept of elections is a bad one. If we were not going to do elections then with tech the way it is now I think pretty much everything could be replaced by...
Crowdsourcing...
Allow people to subscribe to the services they want. Allow them to not pay for services they do not want.
Good ideas don't require force.