The degree of regulatory capture now inside the system is extreme and obvious.

Yet people continue to clamor for greater government control over a wider range of affairs. I simply can't fathom why my fellow citizens can simultaneously complain about the corporatism that government displays and hand the government the means to achieve even more of the same.

on this side of the Atlantic

I assume that when you say this, you're talking about my side of the Atlantic. Is that right?