You could even argue that lobbying is democracy's way of having "corruption" built-in. When there's a dictatorship, no one is surprised when the dictator is br

You could even argue that lobbying is democracy's way of having "corruption" built-in. When there's a dictatorship, no one is surprised when the dictator is bribed. In a democracy, you can't just walk into the president's office and drop a bag of money on his desk, but you can lobby the shit out of him. Either way, you get to bribe someone who's in a position to hand out favours. That's just how political power works.