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We have always lived in an Oligarchal system. It's just become more solidified and intrusive in the last three decades. The famous - though should be primarily infamous - founders intentionally created a system without permission of most of the public (as many people were against the revolution as were for it, and the historical record seems to indicate that it was split about 1/3 between those in favor, against and indifferent), which offered no rights to a huge segment of society and no voting rights to non-land owners, and in some cases banned land owners from voting if they held certain beliefs (ie. catholics in some states) and often if they were female.

Many of the founders were in debt to England and used the revolution to scrub those debts, then took the cash that wasn't truly theirs and used newly gained positions of power to secure huge portions of land during the afterbirth of the new nation. They created their own money, and rendered it valueless when it was in the hands of working class farmers who fought in the war, but then altered the value when it was bought up by bankers such as Hamilton (hence why we had multiple revolutions after the revolution, which were of course defeated without support of the ruling class). The defiling founders also heavily speculated on the land, and persons like George Washington sold the same pieces of land to multiple people, after which the courts protected them from fraud. George Washington didn't become a king because, in America, they lived better than kings.

Republicans being the problem is an oversimplification. Just in reference to this write you've shared, Rutherford Hayes and Benjamin Harrison would be considered Democrats by today's public standard. As you probably know, Republicans and Democrats essentially switched which part of the public they were marketing their campaigns to between the mid-1960's to early 1970's.

Regarding the radio: I don't know if 95 percent of talk radio is right-leaning, but perhaps you are using hyperbole to express your concern (by American standards - truth is that the Democratic Party would be considered a right or even far right party in most of Europe, for example). None the less, ultimately the reason why radio is more right-leaning than, say, television is because radio is much more popular in rural areas and with older people (both of which tend to be more conservative). It wouldn't make much sense for radio stations to broadcast more left-leaning broadcasts when there is little audience for it. So, purely from what the audience seems to desire, it's inevitable. We do still have a problem that radio (and television, and the internet) are highly controlled, but we've seen that control used to manipulate people of all sorts, by both to the "right" and "left".