Lobbying Power.

Do you guys think that lobbying power should be restricted in certain ways for large groups and corporations?  This is naive in one respect-such an attempt might be unconstitutional, since a group has a first amendment right to express its agenda.  But there are other ways to approach it, and how that relates to congressional persuasion, or even 'gifts' is up for discussion.  I don't really know anything about it so I'm throwing it out there.  Also relevant to the discussion may be the ways in which a company is afforded the same legal rights as an individual.

>> 21

What you're describing is people living in functional nation states. In a functional nation state where the majority of people have comfy homes and daily business to take care of only a sociopath would stoop to violent revolution.

On the other hand, millions of people at this moment live in nations where the vast majority of people don't have comfy homes or the security which allows a daily business routine to develop. These people can legitimately work towards revolution.

If anyone in your immediate family owns a car, or has ever gone to college, or if you've never personally been shot at, if any of those things are true, then you're currently experiencing one of the best and easiest lives in human history. So please stfu.