Yes, this is a huge problem which Eisenhower warned us about many, many years ago.
Biden & Harris may have been raised in "they system" but Biden got us out of Afghanistan and was opposed to the surge there when Obama was president.
It's Congress we need to pay more attention to. The system works if people participate. When they ignore everything but the presidential election then vote for a pathological liar, well, it's on them--not the system.
If we paid more attention to the members of the House and Senate this system for rewarding military contractors with huge no-bid contracts wouldn't have happened. The big corruption isn't in the White House today, it's in Congress.
Sheldon Whitehouse has been fighting this fight for decades. But nobody listens because he's not the president.
The fault is with the American people, not the system of government.