The day the people starting losing control...
In April 1970, President Nixon signed into law the Public Health Cigarette Smoking Act banning the advertising of cigarettes on television and radio starting on 2 January 1971.
This one act cost broadcasting millions is revenue. Corporate America took note and recognized this step as a threat to every company. "We can't let this happen to us". Since that date the lawyers have been tasked with making sure it can't happen again.
They realized the real threat was local legislation on the state level and formed ALEC - The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) is a nonprofit organization of conservative state legislators and private sector representatives who draft and share model state-level legislation for distribution among state governments in the United States.
ALEC has produced model bills on a broad range of issues, such as
reducing regulation and individual and corporate taxation, combating illegal immigration, loosening environmental regulations, tightening voter identification rules, weakening labor unions, and opposing gun control.
On the federal level the same theme is advancing towards more control of the government with the culmination in the current administration. We, the people, are losing more and more of the say we have in our government.
If it wasn't for bad luck, I wouldn't have no luck at all.