Sir Allen Stanford was buying politicians like Senators Bill Nelson and Cornyn? For votes against SEC anti-fraud bills?

as Gomer Pyle used to say
Surprise, Surprise, Surprise!

Isn't it easier just to assume that every corporate entity out there is busy trying to undermine every single Pro People bit of legislation, and buying politicians to gain every bit of Pro Corporate legislation?

Isn't it just easier to assume they have been chiseling, undermining, blowing up, beating down, and strangling EVERY single instance of oversight or regulation?

That is how I operate. And still I can be shocked and awed. I don't know all the different mechanisms, all the oversight institutions, so quite often I hear about a new one, and usually at the same time I learn that some Corporo-Republican entity has been gaming it. I am not surprised to learn they have been gaming it, but I quite often get taken aback that there was a Whole 'Nother arena that was being totally dominated by greasy backdoor corporate pillagers, ones I had never heard or dreamed of. It never ends.

Please, I am not naive. I am not a sap. I have been quite fatalistic, or at least realistic about this for a long long time. But these folks spend millions and millions of dollars so they can steal billions upon billions. Then they get billions upon 100 billions of Go Away Bailout money instead of being thrown in jail.
These people (although they are actually just the OPERATORS of huge semi-human CorporoMachines)...these people have 3 shifts of lawyers and lobbyist, working 24/7 on how to MINE us and our govt. and our wealth and our people. There is more effort going into their massive larceny schemes than all the world wars and other collaborative human endeavors combined. And this is being pitted against our efforts as single individuals who get together every 4 years and try to throw our little piece of paper at the Dragon.

I do not wish to propose bloodshed, but what else will stop them? They spend a lot of their loot demonizing US! Claiming gays, and welfare moms and hollywood artists are screwing the world up beyond redemption, while they tear it apart (literally) with their machines and their machinations. Perhaps a citizens revolt, where we take-over the prisons, release the least violent 50%, and frog-march Corporo Zombies into the empty cells.