ahahhahaha. I hated the kids who ran for student government, and you're spot on, but we don't fully understand the campaign donation process and deals made for endorsements.

Still, it's important to study the philosophies and how politics support them. The Nordic countries are capitalist but their economies are more mixed than the US. We had similar economic policies after the Great Depression but over the last 50 years or so, they've been overturned. Clinton pretty much dismantled the last of them in the 90s.

Have you ever heard of Prescot Bush and the Business Plot? That shit is wild.