Good on them I say. I wish people were the focus of government more.

Well this was more or less my point. I said there's nothing WE can do. The reason being, in the USA a minuscule number of people vote for people not affiliated with the main two parties, and it's much the same in the UK (albeit with the split of the right recently among two/three parties). People vote one of two ways. It's the same over and over across western countries. Outside of that, there's often direct bribery options available anyway.

You could run on providing pure utopia in most places in the west and no-one would even hear you. Because no-one is going to fund a genuine politician. Without funding, you're not even an also-ran.

No, the paid stooges always win. They will ensure their corporate paymasters are well looked after once they get into power. This is just the way of things. It will take a revolution to fix it, and historically they don't go so well in the long term either. But, frankly there's only so far we can go down this road before that happens.

There's not enough people that can see this going on and having a will to stop it. More than that, there's just too many stupid people that worked out how to vote. The proof of this, is the absolute lowest common denominator US president right now.

Corporates are a law unto themselves. It's not a new idea, look at the original robocop movie, and indeed any 1980s dystopian movie. They're stories about how corporations got too much power and the world went to shit. We're just seeing the realisation of what those movies foretold.

I don't know how it goes in the US, but in Finland the concept of lex praevia is set in the Finnish constitution.

Section 8 Principle of legality in criminal law No one shall be held guilty of a criminal offence or be sentenced to a punishment on account of an act that did not constitute a criminal offence under law at the time when it was committed. The punishment imposed for an offence shall not be more severe than that provided by law at the time of commission of the offence.

While the Finnish constitution is not set in stone, and can indeed be amended via a supermajority, there's practically no government that would actually allow that kind of change to legislation. It's obvious to anyone what breaking said principle would mean and strive for, and doing so would require at least four different parties to agree.