Is the US government bought and owned by lobbyists and special interests?

Dylan Ratigan from MSNBC says Americans are fed up at our government because it is corrupt and unfair. Ratigan says our government is corrupt and defines the corruption as "there are platinum citizens. there are institutions within the financial institutions that have control of our government that get treated differently than anyone else in America." He says there are two types of citizens in America - platinum citizens and non-platinum citizens. He defines platinum citizens as those with "the rights of the too big to fail banking institutions to take out as much money as they want and to gamble as much as they want." The non-platinum citizens are "all the students with the student debt, which is all the unemployment in this country, which is all the retirees that are getting zero percent interest." 

"Indeed, the percentage for 2010 was lower than it had been in recent election cycles. The center found that in 2008, the biggest spenders won 93 percent of House races and 86 percent of Senate races. In 2006, the top spenders won 94 percent of House races and 73 percent of Senate races. And in 2004, 98 percent of House seats went to candidates who spent the most, as did 88 percent of Senate seats." 

A. K.