I grew up reading The Economist, but as I’ve gotten older, I’ve come find the idea that corporations have the right to use their money to form trade association

I grew up reading The Economist, but as I’ve gotten older, I’ve come find the idea that corporations have the right to use their money to form trade associations and directly lobby the government insane. I can understand how business owners may want to spend personal money to make the case of their personal business interests to their legislators, but the idea of Nestle, S.A. and PepsiCo, Inc. being afforded speech rights and allowed to meddle in the “human affairs” of government no longer makes sense to me.