It’s the split between people who see all lobbying as corruption and those who see lobbying as trying to influence elected representitives, encompassing both the immoral and the benign.
No one really disagrees that we shouldn’t allow people to buy votes and that we should make it possible for a representatives constituents to communicate with them.
Another way to phrase it is that there’s a lot of “voting is pointless, we should get rid of it and just ask people what they want to do instead” energy.
The amount of defense of lobbying in this thread is interesting.
It’s the split between people who see all lobbying as corruption and those who see lobbying as trying to influence elected representitives, encompassing both the immoral and the benign.
No one really disagrees that we shouldn’t allow people to buy votes and that we should make it possible for a representatives constituents to communicate with them.
Another way to phrase it is that there’s a lot of “voting is pointless, we should get rid of it and just ask people what they want to do instead” energy.