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Originally Posted by Jim B.
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.
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.
MONEY rules all. It trumps EVERYTHING else. I don't think our country was founded with this principle in mind.
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How is other forms of lobbying any worse or better? What we are talking about is a representative who has sold himself out. Whether you want to sell yourself to 3 big donors or 50 smaller donors, you done sold out. Sure, Dems and Reps have different business models but ultimately, they done sold out and are corrupt. I fail to see how either way is worse than the other.
You should be so lucky. They help themselves, families, friends and what not way before you get close. But hey, if you benefit, so be it. Unfortunately, that is basic human behavior. We cannot fight it. We can try to survive it.
Yes, it SEEMS to all be removed. From the summary of what I saw, only a couple things were removed. Basically, in the past you could only contribute up to X days before while now you can contribute all the way to the end. Well, instead of giving you $100 BEFORE a certain date, I can give it to you up to the day before. What's the difference? Or do you see more that I missed?
Which is just as bad as the corporate "donors". They too have 1 or 2 issues and won't listen to anyone else.
Such it has been since who knows when. We have never been immune to that and probably never will.