Politicians become lobbyists for the companies they supported. To secure those huge salaries politicians will accept proposals from companies that hire ex poli

Politicians become lobbyists for the companies they supported. To secure those huge salaries politicians will accept proposals from companies that hire ex politicians as lobbyists. This way you get to pay for proposals, but the pay is an indirect transaction, but everyone knows how it works so politicians play ball. That is the main reason they wont listen to just anybody, its because you wont pay them huge salaries in the future, not because you come up with bad proposals for them, that doesn't really matter if they get tons of money from you when they retire from politics.