No, this is potential evidence of democracy. Actual evidence of plutocracy is who is actually allowed to lobby/craft bills.
You know the difference, don't you? A boy walks up to his father and asks him the difference between "potentially" and "actually." Dad tells him to ask his older sister and mom if they would "date" their favorite hunky star for a million dollars. Both, of course, say yes.
"There you go, son. Potentially, we're sitting on two million bucks. Actually, we're living with a couple of whores."
Your two "solutions" further the potential/actual problem. As long as the corporate interests can massively outfund the citizen lobbying groups, there's no chance of actual change; and as long as the corporate lobbying targets enhance future revenues for those corporations, the problem will get actually worse.
Further, since "deregulation" is often the goal of lobbying efforts, the potential benefits of such must be quite a bit different from the actual. Which brings me to:
It's not discomfort with lobbying people have, but instead lobbying by people or groups of people that anti-lobbying people disagree with.
As a person who has lobbied congress in the past and still finds problems with the current system, I must accuse you of either deliberately or unintentionally missing the real problem. As long as money dictates who gets heard in the lobby wars, none of your potential points is actually useful.
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Date: 30/10/13 20:00 (UTC)No, this is potential evidence of democracy. Actual evidence of plutocracy is who is actually allowed to lobby/craft bills.
You know the difference, don't you? A boy walks up to his father and asks him the difference between "potentially" and "actually." Dad tells him to ask his older sister and mom if they would "date" their favorite hunky star for a million dollars. Both, of course, say yes.
"There you go, son. Potentially, we're sitting on two million bucks. Actually, we're living with a couple of whores."
Your two "solutions" further the potential/actual problem. As long as the corporate interests can massively outfund the citizen lobbying groups, there's no chance of actual change; and as long as the corporate lobbying targets enhance future revenues for those corporations, the problem will get actually worse.
Further, since "deregulation" is often the goal of lobbying efforts, the potential benefits of such must be quite a bit different from the actual. Which brings me to:
It's not discomfort with lobbying people have, but instead lobbying by people or groups of people that anti-lobbying people disagree with.
As a person who has lobbied congress in the past and still finds problems with the current system, I must accuse you of either deliberately or unintentionally missing the real problem. As long as money dictates who gets heard in the lobby wars, none of your potential points is actually useful.