Hacked?

http://www.bradblog.com/?p=9845

That sort of implies that there is a chance it can be fixed or repaired.

To me the term is more like infected. Capitalism is a cancer infecting the patient known as Democracy.

I'm of the opinion that capitalism has been slowly destroying democracy as it currently exists for some time, but it's recently (i.e. last 20 years) gotten worse.