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Because lobbying is just political speech. Writing a letter to your congressman is lobbying. Your preferred charity sending their director to talk to your senator is lobbying. You basically can't have a representative democracy without it.
Makes sense. I guess we have to have it then. I don't like it because every American has representation, but sometimes it seems that it doesn't benefit the people when corporations lobby. But I get you.
There are certainly problems with how the current system works, but to me, lobbyists are analogous to lawyers: you're essentially hiring somebody to be your proxy to advocate for you in a venue in which you'd be allowed to advocate for yourself, but which requires some specific knowledge or access (which you probably don't possess) in order to be successful. In both cases, spending more money often equates to better outcomes, which means that the rich can often win just by outspending the poor. But that weakness in the legal system doesn't mean we should get rid of courts or lawyers altogether; it means we need to structure things in a way that provides protection against that sort of manipulation. Ditto for lobbying.
