“Mac: The vote of the fattest, laziest housing-project ghetto scumbag counts just as much as that of Warren Buffett or Bill Gates.
Yeah, and they vote for the same guy too!”
Bingo.
Monopolists and oligopolists will often prefer to esconce a scumbag rather than a straight shooter in office because in a relatively level bureaucratic playing field there is an equality before the law. Oligopolists want to create a situation of inequality before the law and the best way to do this is to put someone in office who can be “fixed”. The more perfect the competition the less likely that one market player can manipulate the regulator.
Once a candidate creates a growing power center it snowballs. He attracts more and more support from everyone who expects a piece of the action. He is “selling shares” in the coming order, which naturally, the candidate will head. But after grasping the levers of power betrayal follows.
