You have this ongoing penchant for putting words in the mouth of others that they did not utter, and it would be nice if you stopped that, but, regardless,

Corporate lobbying to me is the worst thing, because CUMULATIVELY, it comprises the MOST dollars spent to bribe Congress's members, whose first, primary and foremost objective is to STAY IN POWER and fund their campaigns and build bigger staff machines.


Representing their actual constituents they supposedly serve - runs a distant second to this. Spewing out platitudes and saying things they think the constituents want to hear is how they "represent" the people they are supposed to serve.

Now that the Supreme Court in its infinite wisdom (a 5-4 decision being the ULTIMATE truth) has ruled that "Corporations" are "People" , so it seems that 100 years of legal precedent are swept away, and all hindrances on corporate lobbying seems to be completely removed.


Then of course are the very powerful "single issue" lobbies, - unions, guns abortion, gays ane all the others, that are both ultra powerful, and laser focused on thie single issue, on getting what they want and will not listen to anyone whose goals are different to theirs.

To me, the system is cohesive and well run as a premarital drunken bachlorette party (as I would imagine one of them to be)

MONEY rules all. It trumps EVERYTHING else. I don't think our country was founded with this principle in mind.

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