But buying off a single congressperson is not going to change the worldwide discourse on a topic.
Pick the right one and it might.
Or spend $23,134,000 on all of the House and Senate.
In theory, to change discourse, you just need one expert and a few magazine articles and the rest is history.
How do you eat an entire elephant? One bite at a time.
How do you corrupt an entire government? One congressperson at a time.