This is true. The mechanism is decentralized, and so very powerful. In capitalism speech is proportional to money, so those with money speak more loudly and more often than others. The Adam Smith ideal is that successful capitalists use their soapbox to ideologically reproduce. However, the soapbox is used to mislead, weakening society at large to enrich oneself. Each individual is weakened only slightly, but in aggregate the benefit to the attacker is enormous.

Doves want drugs. A smart business wolf constructs a sophisticated machine (business) that in order to sell drugs, hires genius level lawyers and chemists (techie wolves) to do an end-run around the law, strengthen legal and technical barriers-to-entry, and perhaps make a good side-business with private law-enforcement in several ways (make new addicts, fund recovery programs, sell recovery drugs, and also sell private prison services, which is the most lucrative of all).

It's thoroughly, blatantly evil. The law is clearly insufficient to control the wolves - it may even be that US democracy is insufficient to control the wolves, since doves can't even be counted on to vote in their own interest, thanks in no small part to being mentally disabled by the wolves.