The inconvenient truth is that the federal government's command, control and distribution infrastructure is provided by corporate America. So on the one hand corporate special interest groups strive to influence policy in their favor and that policy is carried out by an information and telecommunication infrastructure provided by them providing them with two potential sources of government assistance funds  monies and contracts and two potential reasons for claiming they "run" government. Before voting look at who is contributing to campaigns of your potential candidates and ask if such contributors have financial ties to companies receiving government funds and if you can trust thoses candidates to pass laws and enforce them in a way that benefits us or if they are coming close to us with their mouths only.