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> Sounds like a failure of regulation to me

Which is a direct result of corporations lobbying with billions of dollars.

Every other country calls it bribery for a reason

Lobbying exists in many countries and in many forms does not constitute bribery. Lobbying is already regulated in countless ways. Without lobbying, elected officials would have a much harder time understanding the real impacts of policy. While, yes, Big Tobacco has lobbyists, so does the Cancer Society. Complicating the morality of the equation, a good lobbyist specializing in that industry might work (at different times) for both sides, just like many types of attorneys or other professionals.

In no other country in the world is money considered speech, and in no other country in the world is there remotely as much money in politics as the USA.

I understand you want to justify it's existence, but that doesn't mean it's good for society as a whole.

Money and lobbying are not the same thing. Nice try though

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