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[Star Wars] If the Republic was so corrupt that it allowed businesses to hold Senate seats, what made it worth fighting to restore?

Basically, the title.  
  
The Republic was corrupt even without Palpatine's influence, so what made it so great? And what keeps the New Republic (of the current canon) from just becoming a corrupt husk like the Old Republic?  
  
It was worse in Legends, in Legends their New Republic and all its successor states were completely incompetent to the point where the Vong wrecked the galaxy. And IMO, their inability to do anything basically exonerated the Empire.
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Businesses held Senate seats because they were in some cases more militarily powerful than planets. Like seriously, a "rogue" element of the Trade Federation had enough ships to blockade and invade an entire planet. There were many government types represented in the Republic, from democracies to monarchies, why wouldn't a corporatacracy get representation?