Maybe I made a mistake by focusing on elections rather than policies. But how do you think we got the brain-dead set of "intellectual" "property" laws we have now? Or limited liability for corporations? Why do you think we're one of the only two developed nations that doesn't provide health care for all its citizens? Or why didn't we adopt halfway decent environmental regulations once it became obvious to scientist that humans could effect global climate change? How do you explain any of those things, if not by the fact that people paid for them?