I'm gonna flip your comment out of sequence a little because what I'm getting at is easier to highlight that way.
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That way we'd get politicians who care about service instead of lining their own pockets, and perhaps we get a government that's actually more responsive to the populace. At least that's the idea.
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Presumably however you aren't naive enough to believe that's how it would actually work.
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... and getting all the lobbyist money out of the pockets of the politicians.
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The lobbyist money is a means to an end: getting re-elected. It isn't the reason they want to be re-elected in the first place. And where there's a demand, there will generally be a supply. Nothing about the lobby money, nor corporate money used for campaign purposes has anything to do with "caring about service", they'll just find another way to utilize the suddenly available dollars.