Mogul is such a richly descriptive term. It gets right to the point when used in the current context. In the old days moguls didn't have to buy power, as they do today, because, as a rule, some ancestor slaughtered enough of the their fellow humans to establish a dynasty that lasted generations. Today's moguls need to buy the politicians who serve to preserve their ability to retain their position and power, and by extension, the power of the the political class as well. The Republican Party does this systematically, the Democrats idiosyncratically. We are so much more civilized than Genghis Khan and Tamerlane. In the old days, if someone double-crossed a mogul, he took their head off...literally. Now, as in the case of TR, who double-crossed the moguls of his day when he became a Progressive, they just snarl and moan that when a politician is bought, he should stay bought. Or he just goes on to the next one...Mogul Adelson moves on from Gingrich to Romney. No big deal. There are more subtle moguls, though...like the Koch Brothers. Let's be fair. They're not all the same. But most of the current ones do love elephants. It gives them an excellent perspective from which to make war, literally and figuratively, on the masses below. Who would have thought that America would be the home of so many oriental despots. Oh right...the slave-holders at the founding of the Republic. But still, it is just a little surprising, isn't it?