Quote Originally Posted by denuseri View Post
And when they call their congressman to complain and get a non-returned answering machine because they are not significant enough in their campaign contributions for the congressman to bother responding too what then?

Big business has all the advantages when it comes to lobby efforts, and gets away with "donating" untold amounts of money to anyone they wish to buy off including the purchase of air time for their chosen candidates.
donations aren't votes. its not about lobbying its about how many people will show up to vote. if a millionaire contributes 500,000 to a campaign, guess what? its still 1 vote, as opposed to the 500,000 people who donate nothing but have 500,000 % more say in politics. the reasoning that its all about lobbying indicates 2 things: 1 the average voter is painfully uninformed (in which case they reap what they sow) or 2: the average voter maintains the status quo (in which case they reap what they sow).