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This entire article about AIPAC and their spending, and not once citizens united is mentioned? the 2010 supreme court ruling that is specifically allowing foreign governments to spend money influencing our elections? YES, AIPAC needs to be stopped... by ending citizens united and passing campaign finance reform, which was Bernie Sanders' primary goal in running for president in 2016 and 2020.
This is a "jewish spending group is racist and bad!" article, when it should be "foreign governments influencing our elections is bad!" article
In that entire article, the only time the word "jewish" came up was when it referred to people that AIPAC had attacked. So it's not about it being a Jewish lobby, it's about it being a foreign lobby.
AIPAC existed well before Citizens United.
True. But was their power and influence this extensive before CU?
Absolutely. In fact one of my first posts to Lemmy was documenting how every POTUS, VPOTUS, Speaker of the House, and Senate Majority Leader has spoken at an AIPAC conference going back to the Clinton Administration. They've likely been the most powerful lobbying group in America since at least the early 90s and most American's had never heard of them until recently.
It's my opinion that AIPAC's power both predates and has nothing to do with Citizens United.
This 100%. Nothing will change by eliminating one particular group. End all foreign election influence. Candidates should only be able to raise funds from domestic citizens, period.
100%? Yes, Citizens United has poured petrol on the ability of large aggregations of money to undemocratically influence election outcomes; and yes some of those aggregations are unconcerned with the wellbeing of American people. But are people that are voicing concerns about AIPAC (given that it represents an appartite state currently brutally escalating a decades old genocide, that wants to silence any political voices that are critical of it) actually antisemitic? Because the comment you rated as 100% seems to be furthering AIPACs goal.
It's as if they read about Breonna Taylor's murder and concluded that black people shouldn't think that stand your ground laws apply to them but the important lesson is that killing is wrong.