How Lobbying Built the USA | Corporate Casket

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Blair Zoń

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🗓️ 14 September 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Go to http://shipstation.com and use code CASKET to sign up for a free 60-day trial. Sign up for our Patreon to support what we do! https://www.patreon.com/iilluminaughtii Welcome to the Corporate Casket, a weekly series where bad businesses go to die. Lobbying is an important part of politics in the US, however, there’s a reason so many view it as nothing more than legal bribery. Corporations that bend and manipulate research have been able to have massive influence in government thanks to their dollar bills, and minority groups are consistently underrepresented. Lobbying may be legal, but is it moral? Connect With Me: https://linktr.ee/iilluminaughtii’ Sources: https://justpaste.it/ba2mz Writers/Researchers/Helpers: Ali Z-B This episode was edited and mixed by: G. Thomas Craig Album cover art created by: Betsy Primes Intro Song Credits: Trauma- Will Van De Crommert Outro Song Credits: Electronica Punch- Oleksandr Koltsov Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	So you go to an office, then you go on TV and talk about cigarettes, then you fly to LA to talk to some of the islands or what is that?
0:10.0	That's my job. I'm a lobbyist.
0:12.0	I know, but did you study to do that?
0:15.0	No.
0:16.0	Well, I just kind of figured it out.
0:18.0	Then can't anyone just do that?
0:20.0	No, it requires a moral flexibility that goes beyond most people.
0:27.5	Lobbying is a pretty straightforward term.
0:30.0	It's how individuals and businesses grab the ear of the government and air their grievances, promote laws and bills they want to be passed, basically making their voices extra heard.
0:40.0	This can influence the votes of legislators and shape the very government that we have here in the US so it's no small act and it's basically inevitable in most political systems out there
0:51.0	Now there are some serious benefits to lobbying because let's be
0:54.5	real there are a lot of issues that the government needs to address.
0:57.9	Tackling them all may be virtually impossible so that's why groups of people
1:02.4	band together research a topic, and then present it to
1:05.2	officials to try and spur them into action. Ideally, lobbyists will bring the best and most thorough
1:10.8	knowledge forward as well, so the government can make the most informed decision possible.
1:15.0	And that sounds pretty easy and pretty useful, right?
1:18.0	Spend some money to do some research, buy some time, and you'll be heard.
1:22.0	But what about the people that need help who
1:24.8	don't have money? What about big businesses that can afford to spend and
1:28.6	potentially warp the truth? Well that's where things start to get a little murky.
1:33.0	There's some lobbyists, those lobbyists collect campaign contributions, offer jobs, and then write the laws that Congress then passes to help those same special interests.
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