What is today's American Dream?

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by mookiemookie

George Carlin said it best.

Don'T know that guy, but I totally agree. I am saying exactly the same things in many threads here.

Allowing lobbyism is a stab with the knife into democracy's back. It means that those paying for lobbyist efforts think their opinion is much more worth in counts than the vote of a member of the ordinary voting cattle, and that one who pays for lobbyism deserves more influence on decision making and forming of policies, than voters. In the end, it is the effort to render all voting results meaningless, and to render all checks and balances of the democratic system meaningless as well. Both of which effectively is the declaration of invalidity of the democratic system itself.

And that is the reason why so many politicians - especially in America - but in other countries as well - love to be in bed with lobbyists. They both share the same intention: to bypass the electorate's power and legitimation by voting, and to bypass democracy itself. It is a form of hidden tyranny.

Lobbyism is not only corruption of a major kind - it is is high treason, nothing else.