Nor are members of Congress &#x27;free to do anything [they] please[]&#x27;, but are also &#x27;tied by tons of deals ...&#x27;, making them, by your definition, also &#x27;puppets&#x27;.<p>Nor are the Koch brothers, favorite targets of the anti-corporatists, free to do anything they please, but are also limited by many of the constraints you mentioned.<p>If everyone is a puppet, then the term &#x27;puppet&#x27; is meaningless.