Corporations are forced to play in the system that our crooked politicians created and perpetuate.
Politicians make it known that justice and/or favors are for sale and if you don’t pay you lose out to those that do.
It isn’t the lobbyists and corporations that are the crux of the problem - it is the filthy, crooked, thieving politicians who have declared themselves above the law.
Amen! If these clowns in Congress didn’t have so much power, then companies would not be forced to pay blackmail money just to be left alone.
Prime example - Hillary Clinton. She once ranted and raved about “evil big pharma”, so they started contributing to her coffers to protect themselves. She stopped criticizing them. Ditto for how she ended up on the board of Wal Mart.
Don’t blame lobbyists. Blame sleazy politicians and US voters for giving them so much power over our lives and businesses.