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Post retirement, same congressman get hired as an executive for the company or congressman starts an startup which is brought by the lobbyist company or ... There are far more complex ways for congressmen to receive benefits for accepting lobbyist agenda.

Any action by congressman that doesn't make sense to common mass is result of lobbying. Every human being possesses basic intellect to konw what's good/or not for us and its the greed that persuade them to act differently.

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> Every human being possesses basic intellect to konw what's good/or not for us and its the greed that persuade them to act differently.

This is obviously not true because then every voter would support the same policies. You can't even get everybody to agree on defunding public education!

Obviously you aren't going to be able to get everyone to agree on everything, but I think the vast majority of this is simply because people are easily manipulated, and are so prone to group think and jumping on the bandwagon. If it weren't for lobbying and political campaigns trying to tell you what to think, I believe that the vast majority of the public would be much more aligned.

Have you tried to get a group to consensus in an area where there isn't any lobbying or manipulation? People have lots of different ideas about how to do things, informed by different life experiences.

Political disagreement predates lobbying and campaigns by millennia.

>Any action by congressman that doesn't make sense to common mass is result of lobbying. Every human being possesses basic intellect to konw what's good/or not for us and its the greed that persuade them to act differently.

No, the entire reason we need new laws is to deal with new unforeseen situations and complex interactions. “Basic intellect” will very frequently be wrong when it comes to the implementation of health policies, tax policies, trade policies, economic policies, and so on.

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