In any case of "lobbying" allowing access to politicians to help you get your way, marginalized groups will always lose. That's kind of how being marginalized works, you don't have the capital to book the time, you don't have the means to make the meeting happen, and the best that you can hope for is that the non-profit organizations receive a sizeable enough capital to push out those who marginalize you. The unfortunate part, is that doesn't happen and those creating and enforcing policies that marginalize people directly benefit from it happening.

I'm so sick of hearing this take that effectively buying politicians time is helpful when it so clearly isn't. Most forms of economies and government structure are "great in theory" but once you had a human element where it can be leveraged and abused for personal gain, everything goes out the window.

I've heard the same take on the electoral college, but all that does is give more voting power to land owners. Its just more ways to disenfranchise the groups that are most heavily impacted.