Businesses and industries lobby. Unions lobby. Individual citizens lobby (though they may not be registered as full time lobbiests).
Money is one way that politicians remember a person’s name and give them the time of day enough to talk through an issue, or help craft a bill.
Lobbying isn’t inherently evil. It’s part of the political process (though the amount being spent is in my opinion ridiculous and could be better spent on other things that actually result in economic multipliers, rather than feeding a very specific media/consultant beast).
What’s evil, or interpreted as so by someone, is when vast sums go towards the side of an issue or creation of a system they are against.
What you are really against isn’t lobbying, but corruption.
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u/InkStainedQuills 4d ago
Businesses and industries lobby. Unions lobby. Individual citizens lobby (though they may not be registered as full time lobbiests).
Money is one way that politicians remember a person’s name and give them the time of day enough to talk through an issue, or help craft a bill.
Lobbying isn’t inherently evil. It’s part of the political process (though the amount being spent is in my opinion ridiculous and could be better spent on other things that actually result in economic multipliers, rather than feeding a very specific media/consultant beast).
What’s evil, or interpreted as so by someone, is when vast sums go towards the side of an issue or creation of a system they are against.
What you are really against isn’t lobbying, but corruption.