Let's take the example of subsidies going to farmers in the United States, Europe, and Japan. In the US, these farmers aren't small individual family farmers, for the most part. They're big agri-businesses, and the reason they get these subsidies -- amounting to hundreds of billions of dollars a year -- is because they have huge political power in Washington. But the consequence of all these subsidies is to make it very difficult for people in developing nations to sell their agricultural produce on world markets, because the huge subsidies going to agri-businesses in the US and other advanced post-industrial nations end up under-pricing agricultural exporters from developing nations. If American democracy were working well, we would be able to end these subsidies. But democracy is not working well.

If global organizations such as the IMF, World Bank, and WTO were doing their jobs, they'd be able to pressure the US and other advanced nations to abandon farm subsidies. But they can't, because of entrenched political interests.

Another example of how supercapitalism has spilled over into democracy, to make democracy less effective. The goal, again, must be to save democracy from capitalism, and thereby save capitalism from its own excesses.