This sort of thing accelerated in the 80s[0] as businesses in the 70s saught to make lobbying gains as they have seen public interest groups achieve in the 60s

This sort of thing accelerated in the 80s[0] as businesses in the 70s saught to make lobbying gains as they have seen public interest groups achieve in the 60s an 70s. Another shift, is that it was culturally considered bad practice to become a lobbyist[1] quote: >In 1975 the rare hiring of a former member of Congress as a lobbyist made eyebrows rise When you combine the two, along with the ever decreasing capacity of being a congress member, lobbying effectively supplants the duty of "law making" to a large degree, and thats how we end up with bills that are almost entirely written by lobbyists in the first place. Of course, this opens up the revolving door practice by lobbyist firms to retain their advantage by hiring former congress people, which deepens the entrenched nature of the power of lobbying. [0]: https://web.archive.org/web/20150805124750/https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/04/how-corporate-lobbyists-conquered-american-democracy/390822/# https://web.archive.org/web/20150805124750/https://www.theat... [1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20120524031659/http://blog.washingtonpost.com/citizen-k-street/chapters/introduction/ https://web.archive.org/web/20120524031659/http://blog.washi...