If you pass a law forbidding them to have formal legal presence as an organization, you can. Social cliques are OK, it's the formalizing that makes it worse.
I'd abolish lobbies as official entities if it was up to me too.
They existed as social cliques before they became official entities and were just as problematic at that point. Political parties didn't really become a bipolar construct we have today until ~1791.
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If you pass a law forbidding them to have formal legal presence as an organization, you can. Social cliques are OK, it's the formalizing that makes it worse.
I'd abolish lobbies as official entities if it was up to me too.
They existed as social cliques before they became official entities and were just as problematic at that point. Political parties didn't really become a bipolar construct we have today until ~1791.
Well, I think they've reached a level of depravity and institutionalization since that that was unknown in 1791.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_and_Sedition_Acts
Eh....not really. The problem these days is a disconnect from reality.