Are you concerned about the political power of corporations?

I like to think of governments as an agency from the platonic realms ruled by incorruptible selfless beings with term limits who look out for all life on earth.

Unfortunately, governments need money. There are only two ways to get it. Taxes and Inflation (increase in money supply). The banks won't honor money that loses value (because of increasing supply) unless they get a share of the newly created money. Without governments sharing newly created money with the banks, the banks won't just honor money as a payment for debt.

Since weapons manufacturers need the banks to honor money, governments can't force the banks to accept money that loses value, because governments need weapons to create credible threats to the banks to honor money in the first place.

As long as banks get newly created money for cheap, they will offer it to new politicians they like so that once they get elected, they will help the banks out.

I like to think of lobbying as a secret meeting around a round table at night. Or a late night knock on the door at a senator's house.

Most lobbying needn't be done. It happens without being said. Powerful people are aware of what they need, and align themselves so that they can empower each other while benefiting themselves.

Democracy by popular definition is majority vote wins. This has been corrupted/corroded however you want to say because in the majority of time most politicians either ignore or don't utilize fact based studies but end up trading elections for sponsors. This isn't democracy this is greed especially in the United States where our founding fathers had designated certain rules for such. While it may be true that unions are getting out of control we're stuck in between two evils both unnecessary however good will they may be. Politics in this day and age is solely determined by who has the best Charisma versus intelligence and ethics. This is further proven by the fact that we're still using a two party system. Observe debates how many were brought to a national debate? Just Obama and Romney.

I am much more concerned about the Union political power where they can keep people from working when they want because you don't want to pay them tribute.

Big business has always been a part of a capitalist economy. Its just some of the hurdles that we have to leap over to keep such a system

Corporations have no political power. the people you vote for have that. If the people you vote for are taking bribes ,,ummmm campaign contributions,,, and giving corporations power then for gawds sake stop voting for them.