Yes, in our advanced utopia the winning politician is not known up front, we get to pick from the two politicians who managed to accumulate the most debts to corporate interests! It's much better.
Compare this to China or Russia, where the way to punish the ruling party is "you don't" - or Africa where the way to punish the ruling party is to try to amass enough Kalashnikovs and get enough of the various clans on board to stage the next coup.