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In reply to the discussion: HOW INFLUENTIAL IS AIPAC? LESS THAN BEER SELLERS, PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS, AND TOYOTA [View all]procon
(15,805 posts)It's just wrong on so many levels. Here we are discussing Israel because we allow politicians to take bribe money from a foreign state to curry favor and buy influence that will benefits another country, often in direct contradiction to US interests.
It's just wrong on so many levels. The larger issue here is that no sovereign governments should be tampering with our foreign or domestic policies. With Trump's happytime affiliation with the brutal, despotic leaders of Russia, Saudi Arabia, No. Korea, and the Philippines, how many other countries are gleefully following AIPAC's business model to bribe US politicians into steering favorable legislation into their pockets?
It's bad enough the we turn a blind eye to all the US special interest groups lobbying politicians through a system that allows legal bribery to corrupt our government. That's compounded beyond belief when foreign actors are mucking up the system as well.
It must stop. Get the money out of politics.