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The same agency Biden banned aid to via executive order until it could be included in the budget...
If Dems somehow win the House, AIPAC's largest recipient of donations will be House majority leader too.
Whether republicans or democrats win in the next election, it's impossible for Israel to lose. They buy off the only two options in our political system
"Blue no matter who" is not a viable long term strategy, because a D next to someone's name doesn't make them magically perfect we need standards
I must be honest, whenever i hear people from the US say/chant 'vote blue no matter who', they genuinely sounds like cultists to me.
It used to be the smart play.
But the danger was always holding your party to a lower standard, means lower quality candidates.
Especially in American politics where money and corruption are both readily available and often flat out legal, it's hard for honest candidates to win primaries.
Primaries are orders of magnitude cheaper, so lots of people realized their money not only goes further there, but you could play both sides.
Especially in the House where a tiny rural district can be bought for like $20k. And people who openly oppose you are easily targets on reelections.
The state of the democratic party in 2024 was always going to be the result of no standards, I just thought we had longer.
If this isn't the last nail in the coffin, I don't know what is.
Eh
You really should use the lobbying tab.
https://www.opensecrets.org/industries/lobbying?cycle=All&ind=Q05
AIPAC especially gives a lot of trips and gifts. Then "bundling" donations so they come from individuals and not directly.
Plus your link is just direct donations to a candidate. It doesn't include donations to a PAC associated directly to a candidate.
Open secrets has been around for a while, the people who abuse our political system the most works around it by now.
So not even the lobbying tab is super relevant anymore, but it's better than direct contributions for a measure of influence
I only just found out about it but yeah I'm sure it's not better than it looks lol.