2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: "I'm Not Sure What The Status Is... I'll Have To Look Into It..." Now, Let Me Just Change The... [View all]Volaris
(10,270 posts)It should be ILLEGAL to get paid to lobby Congress. If you're gonna do that, it should be because you actually and REALLY BELIEVE that Yellowstone should still have wolves (or whatever your thing happens to be), and that you believe in it enough that you would do it FOR FREE, minus basic travel expenses to DC. How many people do YOU think would go and lobby Congress on behalf of Charles and David or Jamie Dimon if they had to do it 'cause they actually bought into what those snakes were 'selling'?
My guess would be exactly 3--Charles and David and Jamie (and if they have to go and do an ask WITHOUT the legal avenue of billion-dollar election funding, how many CongressCritters do you think are actually gonna take that meeting, when their primary source of election funding is a system of Public Dollars that require them to do useful work on behalf of their constituents? Exactly Zero, is how many.).
Corporate Personhood is a legal illusion--its a Shade. While the trick was designed by lawyers, the people who keep the theatre lights turned down so you cant see it for what it really is, get PAID to do so, and they are called Lobbyists.