Comment by Aunche

> No longer do you have to carefully study laws and regulations, you just have to make sure one guy likes you!

American civic understanding has gone through the floor. People already think that corporate quid pro quo is the default, so for some, this is actually an improvement because it's more transparent now. It can't be that corporations achieve wins through research and coalition building because that would imply that people aren't not doing enough themselves. The irony has made lobbying stigmatized in grass-roots organizations [1], which only gives corporate lobbyists more power.

[1] https://apnews.com/article/nonprofits-lobbying-less-survey-1...