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Why are Europeans more effective at passing big legislation than the US? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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EU has done really well on passing big laws such as GDPR in the recent years, while the US can't even seem to decide whether to fund their own government. Why do you think Europe is doing better than the US? One would think that since EU is more diverse it would be harder to find common ground. And there were examples of that during the Greece debt crisis. But not anymore, it seems.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Those EU lobbyists have less capability. They cannot finance a campaign for a politician, can they?

The US has #CitizensUnited.

The US also has corporate lobbyists who use fraudulent techniques such as writing thousands of letters from fake people (they got caught doing this on the #netneutrality issue whereby Congress got thousands of letters appearing to be from individual human beings who all opposed network neutrality -- LOL). Are EU corporate lobbyists willing to partake in such blatant fraud?

Biggest lobby in the US → #NRA. The NRA owns about ½ the politicians. And since the NRA are right-wing extremists who work with #ALEC (right-wing lobby & bill mill), they push everything in favor of big corps and against human beings. They block progress.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Well, lobbyists don't fund campaigns, they seek to influence for cash.

There are loads of shady things going on in the EU agriculture sector, the US doesn't have a monopoly on shady lobbyists.

https://www.politico.eu/article/copa-cogeca-farmering-lobby-europe/

Pharma is by far the biggest spender on lobbying

https://www.statista.com/statistics/257364/top-lobbying-industries-in-the-us/