Yes, I agree with that, and that's a bit of what I'm trying to point out - discussions of "politics" in situations like this tend to devolve to regulatory captu

Yes, I agree with that, and that's a bit of what I'm trying to point out - discussions of "politics" in situations like this tend to devolve to regulatory capture and the relative merits of Team Blue or Team Red, but the core problem is that there's basically one political philosophy in this country and it's got nothing whatsoever to say about one's actual moral responsibility to society, except maybe to argue the premise of the question.