Several members of Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign staff have lobbied for corporations that are pretty un-progressive. Do her progressive supporters realize this? The Grocery Manufacturers Association that Drane lobbied for often attempts to weaken progressive GMO regulations through its lobbying efforts. And Abedin’s lobbying firm Teneo did work for Jon Corzine’s MF Global before it went bankrupt.
These Geke venn diagrams illustrate Washington's revolving door -- government staffers who have also lobbied for the very corporations and industries they, their bosses, or their agencies regulate. These corporations aren't capitalist; they're corporatist. Corporatism is a system in which corporations become embedded in government in order to secure market protections, favors, waivers, and many write their own legislation and regulation, which can penalize their competitors. And while it's generally assumed that Republicans, both staffers and elected officials, are guilty of this type of blatant corporatism, progressive, leftist, and Democrat examples of corporatism usually go unnoticed.
