Except the US is by far the worst at this because it allows lobbying and political influence through donations. In most other democratic countries this is ille

Except the US is by far the worst at this because it allows lobbying and political influence through donations. In most other democratic countries this is illegal. It's intellectually dishonest to pretend that lobbying just means "reaching out to politicians about an issue and educating them about it." Lobbying wouldn't be such a problem and corporations wouldn't have such unshaken influence on politicians compared to the People, if that was all there was to it. But it's not just that - it's about those companies making "donations" to politicians that will then be much easier to "convince" to vote their way. Watch this video if you aren't convinced, which is just a nice visual presentation of a study that was done and found out that what People want doesn't matter, but what corporations want has a direct correlation to how politicians vote: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tu32CCA_Ig https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tu32CCA_Ig Also, I remember when one Congressman said post-SOPA that the anti-SOPA petitions made by people and all the calls were nice and all, but it wasn't until Google and other big companies got involved that politicians started really listening and many changed their minds on the vote.