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Big Business lobbying of Congress has been out of control since the 1970s, when a consumer-protections bill was defeated after a small number of paid-off Democrats defected.

Afterward, House Speaker "Tip" O'Neill (D-Mass) said “I have never seen such extensive lobbying.”

That was in the wake of the 1971 "Powell memo," a blueprint for corporate domination of American democracy, which prompted the corporatists to move to DC from NY.

The left needs to organize better. Infighting hasn't worked.

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