Governments regulate markets, central banks are similar to that, but there are options for those outside of the cheap credit.
I don't buy into this at all. Epstein ran a business providing 15-17 year old hookers to rich fat businessmen and then blackmailed them
Those opinion polls matter. Also a number of wars have ended via politics like Iraq, Afghanistan, Korea, and Vietnam. The voters yanked them.
Your last sentence is important, but consider that if they share the same ideology and social groups as well as media sources, they are going to be "a troppo" or in near-simultaneous echo.