At the consumer level, candidates are cars are candy bars. All offer the same grease and sugar, but arrive in different wrappers, always introduced via cute commercials. That vaguely uncomfortable taste you drive away with while slurping your Slurpee is the feeling you've been had, forced to play the other guy's game. Rigging the playing field represents the difference between mogul and munchkin, between selling consumables or being consumed. The corporate elite not only field a team, but control all aspects of competition.
Players merely provide emotional triggers to exploit the public for profit.
Motorists are allowed choices of new or used cars and little else. Kind of makes the Amish look like mass transit visionaries or retro-radicals. Although it should be expanding as the community grows, the Citifare bus system was just substantially cut back. Unless you have lots of time to get where you need to go, it's of only marginal utility. The real decisions were made for us almost a century ago.