This has been the case in the US for at least 50 years but it did get recently much worse. Previously, Obama was openly shilling for Boeing. Reagan arbitrarily deregulated things, creating the S&L crisis and wrecked many other things, and funded American-trained death squads by getting poor and brown people hooked on drugs. The duopoly "choices" offered thus far have been between John Birch Society Nazis and limousine liberals... both warmongering corporatists who won't do anything for ordinary people but are totally engrossed on winning more money and passing more laws for their masters.