that, and they're very sophisticated, these networks. well, let me just ask you for a moment to take a look here at home. let's look at some failing policies like the afghanistan war, the iraq war, two lost wars, an economic meltdown that brought down practically the world economy, a rampant galloping environmental crisis, and an opioid epidemic and covid pandemic that's been badly handled at best, that have killed, each of them, more than several hundred thousand americans. now let's look at the executives of defense contractors, financial investment firms, real estate firms, pharmaceutical companies and fossil fuel giants who have cycled in and out of government, or at the very least have been very influential in terms of shaping governmental policies, let's see how they're doing. pretty well, right?