Lobbying is nothing more than over the table bribery. It has resulted in corporations and foreign countries buying our politicians. The American people have no voice because influence goes to the highest bidder. How can democracy function using this formulation? It can’t and it doesn’t. We have watched foreign countries influence elections and I can’t call it anything other than a soft coup. The same countries we send economic and/or military aid to have weaponized that aid and used it to buy our politicians. One example of this is Israel and their major lobbying firms like AIPAC. We have ceded our country to a foreign government. In what way does getting involved in offensive wars in the middle east benefit Americans, exactly? It doesn’t. It benefits American defense contractors and Israel. Ignoring the American people is the reason we are in the calamity we find ourselves in and the only way to fix it is to end all lobbying.
We need to end all lobbying to force our representatives to work for the American people instead of the highest bidder.