Well, wouldn't that be nice if that were so again. We just witnessed what may have been the United States' most corrupted, subverted, and non-credible general election in living memory. They don't work for us, in fact, we can quantify it now-- 80% of the time there's a conflict of interest between constituents and corporate graft, corporate corruption wins.

"The U.S. government does not represent the interests of the majority of the country's citizens, but is instead ruled by those of the rich and powerful, a new study from Princeton and Northwestern universities has concluded.

The report, "Testing Theories of American Politics: Elites, Interest Groups, and Average Citizens" (PDF), used extensive policy data collected between 1981 and 2002 to empirically determine the state of the U.S. political system." 
( http://www.businessinsider.com/major-study-finds-that-the-us-is-an-oligarchy-2014-4 )