very similar to how karl marx looks at what happened in politics. that conceptualization got broadened by other economists like gary becker, poser, and others to be expanded to expand other interest groups from the demand side. we can certainly find cases where we found consumers who were co-opting the process for their benefit or environmentalists or 1% or's. any good criminal investigator, when you are trying to find out who made the at fault, what you look for is motive, means and opportunity. those are all present on the supply side of politics. had we not been looking at just the last 50 years, had we looked more broadly the last several centuries where hypocrisies were the norm, we would probably have a different perspective on this marketplace. when hypocrisies were were the norm, the belief would be that the rulers owned the state, the country and its citizens, as in louis the 14t 14th. it's not to say that government can't advance the public interest. they are human beings like the rest of us whether they populate business settings, everyda