Here&#x27;s a (cynical) quote describing modern US politics:<p>The United States is a corporate oligarchy pretending to be a two-party dictatorship pretending to be a representative democracy.<p>That&#x27;s the sort of thing meant, I think. There are layers and in this quote the implication is that the fat and happy people are at the outer layer (they think the levers of power of a representative democracy are still valid ways to control the country), and others can see past that into the other two layers behind it.