There is a moral pitfall that consists of thinking that anything that society will sell you a license to do cannot be wrong. I can buy a fishing license and throw little bluegills on a pile on the bank, leaving them to rot, for my own amusement, but it would not be right though legal. Nothing reminds me so much of the relationship between democracy and capitalism as the sight, familiar from photographs, of the tiny sparrow perched on the shoulder of the fledgling cuckoo many times its own size, feeding it under the misapprehension that it is the sparrow's own child. The sparrow is exercising a misdirected altruism, but the cuckoo is a thief. There is no reciprocity.
Businesses receive the blessings of democracy, but most exercise no citizenship in return.
The last battle between democracy and capitalism is fought on the field of political campaign contributions. PAC's and soft money are the downfall of the system, the ultimate subversion of the democratic rulebook by the capitalistic. Instead, businessmen go right to the source, to the lawmakers, and buy them with soft money and PAC money. Capitalism is resting gently on the ground, atop the crushed shards of democracy.