The corporation has become the voter of today. Politicians have figured out that they no longer have to win votes with grass roots effort. They can buy votes by spending incredible amounts of money on media campaigns. These kinds of campaigns cost several dollars per vote attained. That kind of money can only come from the corporate world.
Energy policy is probably the ultimate example of the ill effects of our corporate democracy.
What is coming out of federal and state governments is not what the public wants placed into law. So RE has a HUGE mandate under that definition, yet is largely ignored. The influential corporaions in the fields of RE are few and far between. Once again, what is happening in congress does not reflect what the people and the voters want. It is what the corporations want.