If donations did not affect outcome, no company would donate.

Even when a legislator's decisions are unaffected by lobbying, companies still control legislation by ensuring legislators who earnestly believe in legislation that favors the corporations over the people get elected.

This is how Biden sided with banks and the prison-industrial complex for half a century yet didn't have enough money to fund his son's cancer treatment without selling his house until Obama paid off his medical debt.

"hearing out all sides" somehow invariably turns into siding with whoever controls the most capital - I wonder how that happens.

Donations aren't to sway opinion they're to maintain a stock of dependent politicians who already agree with your position but who also need your funding to stay in office

Which will happen when hell freezes over

Edit- not saying you're not wrong though