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Sadly those votes don't mean a thing when there's lobbyists involved.

• wwweston 13y ago
  > Sadly those votes don't mean a thing when there's lobbyists involved. I honestly think this might be the most important insight in the modern political landscape -- though I think it's incompletely expressed in the language on display here. The central truth is that voting on its own is a pretty limited form of civic interaction, and as long as it's the only one, officials and citizens will tend to be pretty isolated from one another. Lobbyists close the loop. Of course, as long as that means hired lobbying, it only closes the loop for people who can afford to hire people to lobby for them. The question I think this analysis brings up is whether we have too many lobbyists or too few.