Consensus becomes wheel-greasing and corrupt politics.

ECONOMIST: What would Confucius say now?

More finance types get done for corruption than political types, therefore finance is more corrupt than politics. which would be true if the rules were the same for the two different groups.

FORBES: Which Is More Corrupt? Wall Street Or Congress?

The richly textured populist panorama, with its long-simmering feuds, casual gunplay, corrupt local politics, and the shoddy justice of vigilante mobs, blends the comic hyperbole of long-ago tall tales with the intense melodramatic spectacle of life and death in the daily balance.

NEWYORKER: Wild Girl