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> It gives me hope that it could be passed knowing that opinion, not a cabal of interests, stands in the way.

as I've become more open to other people's political worldviews, I've come to understand that any extant political 'movement' (for lack of a better term) has advocates (and opposition) in both categories you mention: interested beneficiaries and prescriptive advocates.

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Or as economists have dubbed it, "Bootleggers and Baptists": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootleggers_and_Baptists