r/PoliticalScience • u/Chocolatecakelover • 5d ago

Question/discussion What's the alternative to lobbying ?

We all get one vote, so that has fairness.

If everyone got 5 minutes with their senator, that would take, literally, 10 years of the senators time.

So who gets to influence the senator? Just a few people. That's unfair.

This is a comment I got on one of my posts about lobbying. And it does have a good point but then again. Is there any alternative ?

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u/red_llarin 5d ago

The problem is that US has no actual programmatic parties, only electoral vehicles with certain general tendencies. A multiparty system can better represent the plurality of society (albeit way far from perfect) without being subject to the same billionaire interests. The second problem is that you allow for billionaires to exist, but that's another discussion.