Comments by "Laurence Fraser" (@laurencefraser) on "How the USA Is Losing the Aviation Industry Battle" video.

  1.  @hydrohasspoken6227  Nah, lobbying covers a whole range of things. Some of it is perfectly reasonable and sensible and a representative democracy wouldn't actually Function without it (petitions, for example). ... but yeah, if your system isn't set up right, it can and does end up including flat out bribery... though in the USA it frequently doesn't have to: The professional lobiest class hired by large and wealthy trade associations and billionaires can spend all of their working hours interacting with politicians, while the system is quite intentionally set up to make it almost impossible for the average person to ever be able to afford to take the time off work to even meet their local politician once in a term. No further corruption necessary, the politicians are simply only ever given one side of the story (the public oftend doesn't even know the issue is being considered... not because notices aren't posted, but because they are, in the most useless ways possible, and no one has the time and resources spare to deal with them because, frankly, US employment conditions are often pretty darn rubbish.)
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