&gt; Or, they get threatened with loss of their seats.<p>They get seats by spending money on campaigns. Public is easily manipulated by political marketing. The only thing that could put them out of there seats would be more money spent for a smear campaign against them.<p>&gt; It&#x27;s a lot more gratifying to live in this conspiratorial world where a romanticized resistance against our corporate overlords is the only way, but it&#x27;s not a useful mental model for actually succeeding at anything.<p>As opposed to romanticized world where money (got from industry) put into political marketing has no effect on votes and you achieve political goals by educating voters (at no cost other than your sincere effort)?