Rebalancing Society by Mintzberg Henry

Author:Mintzberg, Henry
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Published: 2015-06-05T04:00:00+00:00

Lies the Lobbyists Tell Us

Lobbying is about free speech. Then why does it take place behind closed doors?

Corporations, as persons in the law, have the right to this free speech. Someone in the United States has brought a suit to have chimpanzees recognized as persons in the law (in order to protect them). Surely chimpanzees have a more legitimate claim to personhood than do corporations.

Lobbying is legal. In a manner of speaking, lobbying may be legal. So is bribing, under the label of political donations, which has opened those backroom doors to lobbying. Corruption, you see, can be legal, too.

Everyone has access to lobbying. “Everyone” includes those who have the money to bribe the politicians, or the power to make their lives miserable, or who can threaten their reelection. While the vast majority of Americans supported the recent legislation to expand background checks for gun buyers, the gun lobby stopped this legislation in the Senate.

Lobbying is about democracy. In fact, lobbying destroys democracy. The self-evident truth today is that those people who get to lobby are more equal than those who don’t.

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