Our politics reflect this state of intellectual inviolability. The voter's opinions on issues are sacrosanct. Practical politicians seeking election rarely attempt to alter opinions, no matter how unreasonable. What is amazing is how intellectually easy it is to recognize feasible, practical initiatives that would upgrade the rationality of government, and thereby the social conditions under which we all live. But as things stand, political debate is oblivious to rudimentary civic insights.
People means human beings.
Commercial interests are of concern only insofar as they affect humans. It is misguided, for example, to apply concepts of human rights, like freedom of speech, to corporations. Whether a policy is good or bad is not always a matter on which reasonable people can differ. Bad policies often have energetic proponents despite their unequivocal badness. The badness of bad policies is not always intuitively obvious.