Why wouldn’t rulers we can vote on be less corrupt than the private stockholders who are rulers we can’t vote on?
Wonderful question!
Because the rulers are hand in hand with the private stockholders! It is the proverbial fox guarding the hen house!
Why do you think legislation constantly gets passed that is harmful to, say, small farmers while gigantic influence peddling corporations like Monsanto love the same legislation? It's because Monsanto hates competition and the legislators LOVE the money Monsanto gives them to win elections and retire like kings! Come on, man! Catch a clue!
"Oh but we can vote these corrupt bastards out of Congress!"
Yeah. How's that working out for you? Not so good, huh? So instead of cutting the snake off at the head (that means reducing government) you want to multiply the hydra and boost their power and corporations' influence. Not smart.
"Oh but when that happens we'll just vote them out."
No you won't. Because you haven't done it yet. Because said legislators take that lobby money and hire the most expensive PR and advertising as$holes in the nation and persuade the easily persuaded, like EatTheRich, and you just vote them back in again!
If you cut the legislators' power by electing small government legislators (and voting THEM out when they grow government!) then you remove the incentive for big corporations to lobby them! (Even Stevie Wonder could see it!) Do you even know how evil Monsanto is? (Why would you want to grow government power and control so that Monsanto could control your newly minted controllers? That's just insane!)
"Oh, but then we'll be at the mercy of them ebil ebil corporations!"
No you won't. You'll refuse to buy their shit. Or you'll have privately funded watchdogs like Consumer Reports, Yelp, Angie's List, Amazon ratings, re-emerging honest journalists (Breitbart for cons and for libs we have. . .we have. . .hey you guys better get on the stick) shit load of other avenues, etc. to rely on to make your purchasing/advocating decisions.
And then you always have fraud litigation which works pretty well especially when a small government can't create fraudulent loopholes (created by legislators in response to lobby money) them ebil corps wiggle through in a court of law.
What happened when Enron was shown to be a bunch of frauds? Answer: The market killed them literally overnight. The market was judge, jury, and executioner. And the only reason they lasted as long as they did was their government patsies covered for them. . .until they couldn't cover them any more.
This kind of shit happens all the time in the US.
Time for a reality check, ETR.