> I'd even go as far as to say that the concept of lobbying is a fascist idea
The people living in democracies without lobbying wholeheartedly agree. We genuinely can't believe you let it happen.
The people living in democracies without lobbying wholeheartedly agree. We genuinely can't believe you let it happen.
Your assertion that you and others live in democracies without such a process is false. Moreover your implication that lobbying is wholly negative and unique to the American democratic system undermines your position and demonstrates what appears to be a bias against the United States in general rather than an honest critique of the way lobbying is conducted in that country.
Yet de-facto in the day-to-day it is not you-and-me average citizens lobbying at the highest level but HugeCorps because they have the connections and means to pay the right lobbyists that actual average citizens could never afford...
And the very word itself already has a bad connotation. It is not "democratizing" or "participating", it is "lobbying" and nobody associates a positive, generally beneficial democratic process with that.
By voting for all issues directly, like it's done here in switzerland.
Other systems where you vote people into office to do the actual decision making for you can hardly be called democracies in comparison.
In many US states, they allow ballot measures, but they are often worse than the options that would come out of the legislature because of the free for all nature of advertising for them and the general public's lack of knowledge of the details of the proposal. They do, however, allow issues such as gay marriage/pot to come up if it's too controversial for the legislature.