Yes, but don't think they are the same lobby groups. One group is just your classical suite wearing corporate sleeze balls who want an environment that's good for business, they are still going to run the country into the ground but it would have been a longer, slower, and less painful process. The other is a bunch of fascist neo-feudalists who actively hate you and want to create a fascist hellstate where they control everything and everyone, disappearing anyone they disagree with and actively suppressing any political opposition. They think 1984 is a manual on governance, if they have even read it at all.
There's a big chunk of lobbyists which lobby whoever is in power since they are only concerned with one specific issue, but I'm talking about the super PACs and donors who support the politicians directly, those are the guys who have a much stronger hand in shaping general policy. Those guys don't cross over between parties, because they both have very different visions for the future of America.
Because I'd say the elites are pretty united on what they want and that's profit. And instead of fighting each other it's easier to just join businesses to maintain a monopoly.
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u/siresword 23h ago
Yes, but don't think they are the same lobby groups. One group is just your classical suite wearing corporate sleeze balls who want an environment that's good for business, they are still going to run the country into the ground but it would have been a longer, slower, and less painful process. The other is a bunch of fascist neo-feudalists who actively hate you and want to create a fascist hellstate where they control everything and everyone, disappearing anyone they disagree with and actively suppressing any political opposition. They think 1984 is a manual on governance, if they have even read it at all.