a thoughtful web.
Good ideas and conversation. No ads, no tracking.   Login or Take a Tour!
comment by aidrocsid
aidrocsid  ·  3698 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Founding father's forgotten solution for special interests and lobbyiest

That's pretty interesting. It seems sound. Are there other governments that have run into this same thing?





Watchdog  ·  3698 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Canada has a similar problem but without the lobbyists. The reason why Canada doesn't have effective lobbyists is because the Canadian PM whips every vote. If you don't vote his way then you can removed from the party. So even if you were a really effective lobbyist, unless it was going to pass anyways then you have zero influence on the vote.

aidrocsid  ·  3698 days ago  ·  link  ·  

So it's basically just the in-party intimidation like he was talking about in the later two videos?

Watchdog  ·  3698 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Exactly, they even had the 'hanged man' where they have dismissed a party member for not voting along party lines.