Secret Recordings Reveal How Exxon Lobbyists Manipulate Politicians and Public
Whenever this kind of leaks appears, some minority of people get outraged for a few days, and it ends like that.<p>For a change, I&#x27;d like to finally see some consequences for such behaviour. Some action to actually limit influence of lobbying from big corporations.<p>But honestly, I just don&#x27;t see this happening, as long as some distant government is allowed to take important decisions on its own. Maybe the only balance against lobbying would be if more countries had some form of Swiss-like direct democracy. Not perfect, since people can also be influenced through various means, but it&#x27;s much harder to &quot;lobby&quot; people to vote for something that is not in their interest that to &quot;lobby&quot; a group of politicians that don&#x27;t care about people.