RandAlThor to Canada · 3 months agoCorporate lobbyists are flocking to Pierre Poilievre’s cash-for-access fundraisers ⋆ The Breachbreachmedia.caexternal-linkmessage-square6fedilinkarrow-up187arrow-down11cross-posted to: [email protected]
arrow-up186arrow-down1external-linkCorporate lobbyists are flocking to Pierre Poilievre’s cash-for-access fundraisers ⋆ The Breachbreachmedia.caRandAlThor to Canada · 3 months agomessage-square6fedilinkcross-posted to: [email protected]
minus-squareIninewCrowlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up32·3 months agoIt amazes me how we all just normalize the idea that whoever gets to fund raise the most has the best chances to get elected. When money has more of an influence on who gets elected … it isn’t a democracy … it’s a plutocracy, a government system based on money and wealth.
minus-squareFireRetardant@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up10·edit-23 months agoDemocracy ended when lobbying bribery became legal and normalized.
minus-squareskozziilinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-23 months agoI’m still waiting for someone to explain to me the honest difference between lobbying and bribery aside from small nuance. Has some “corporate wants you to find the differences in these two pictures” energy.
minus-squareFireRetardant@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 months agoLobbying is just corporate bribery with confusing language
It amazes me how we all just normalize the idea that whoever gets to fund raise the most has the best chances to get elected.
When money has more of an influence on who gets elected … it isn’t a democracy … it’s a plutocracy, a government system based on money and wealth.
Democracy ended when
lobbyingbribery became legal and normalized.I’m still waiting for someone to explain to me the honest difference between lobbying and bribery aside from small nuance.
Has some “corporate wants you to find the differences in these two pictures” energy.
Lobbying is just corporate bribery with confusing language