Something unlike the current system ...
... i.e., politicians that weren’t for sale, followed the Constitution, kept spending under control, stopped the pork, etc. ....
Sounds great. All we have to do is find at least one candidate in each congressional district and senate election to do those things. We thought we had that a few years ago when a bunch of people signed a Contract with America, but we forgot to stop voting for them when their self-imposed term limits came to an end. And they seemed to put a retroactive termination date on the contract without telling us about it.
I'm not trying to argue with you, but the people have to take responsibility for the government we end up.