When Big Pharma & Big Oil etc are literally spending hundreds of millions of dollars every year on lobbying efforts, the well-being of the average American citizen becomes a more & more peripheralized concern to policy-makers. That’s where the darkness lies. It isn’t even covert.

Yep. At this point, the concern is only creating enough window-dressing to keep us from rioting. Which is obviously failing. But we see the truth now. How Congressional bribe-taking has ruined the country. DNC, DSCC, even unions--all complicit