In a way I agree with you- but the steamrolling really got started under Reagan and reached critical mass just after W got through with loading up the US Supreme Court with acolytes of one or another creed that opened the flood gates to big money running the political show. Corporate interests and money are the key thing for politics to look after- not people- and judging from the statements of many here say- there are a lot of people that are good with that. So good in fact that the Human Rights of many people are apparently subordinate to those of privileges of the rich, and in some cases even their pets.