'Regulatory capture', in its essence, is nothing more than the phenomenon of a government regulatory body which is explicitly created to check the excesses of corporate authority turning its own authority over to the corporations it oversees.
If I were to list off every example of this, I would run out of room a hundred times over. Instead I'll simply cite a seemingly innocuous example of this, coming from the Environmental Protection Agency:
http://www.grist.org/article/food-2010-12-10-leaked-documents-show-epa-allowed-bee-toxic-pesticide-I rather suspect I already know the answer to this: it hits both Parties where it hurts, because it implicates both the State power structure
and corporate economic system in ing over the public. Neither Party could effectively respond to it, wedded as they are to outlooks which are basically incapable of dealing with the problem. But then, I suppose, this thread is superfluous.
