More specifically it’s a handful of key industrialists who hold the reigns of the military industrial complex and who saturate the Beltway with henchmen (lobbyists). We really have no power – we elect a GOP candidate and they’re, by the very wallpaper, in bed with the resource extraction keys. We elect a Democratic candidate, and they might say they’re this and that uninfluenced by big oil blah blah, but when they need to get something done, they’re on their knees in a second.
The only thing that will work is if we all stop driving for a couple of months.