Lobbying is not actually that harmful when it's relatively transparent: i.e everybody can look up who funded who, which this kinda applies to US. Many US citiz

Lobbying is not actually that harmful when it's relatively transparent: i.e everybody can look up who funded who, which this kinda applies to US. Many US citizens think lobbying is the source of the problem.At a first thought you may think that, but without lobbying you de facto have "unseen" lobbying: which is corruption, more or less.That's why in 'democratic' countries where lobbying is illegal, there's way more corruption.This is not to say that lobbying reduces corruption, no, but it's a way to somewhat keep transparency while influencing and pressuring politicians, which happens, happened, and will always happen.