Friday, February 16, 2018

JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE ISRAEL LOBBY AS WITH ALL OF WASHINGTON'S LOBBIES AND CORRUPT CAMPAIGN-FINANCING IS A SELF-INFLICTED WOUND BY AMERICA'S OWN POLITICIANS WHO HAVE NO INCENTIVE FOR CHANGE



COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE IN RUSSIA INSIDER


“The Israel Lobby - an 'Epidemic' of Wholesale Corruption”

It is important to understand that the damage done in America to honest and open politics is largely self-inflicted.

The fault is in America's campaign finance laws as well as its laws governing lobbying.

The system is totally corrupt, and it serves as an open door to outfits like the Israel Lobby. But the Congress has no incentive to change things because it quite literally heavily benefits from the way things are arranged. It would also take a massive and uncomfortable adjustment to change the system.

Imagine a national Supreme Court ruling that money is the same thing as free speech?

Well, that is just what happened in America after years of Congressional and Presidential efforts to make it so and of appointments of judges who strain to guide affairs according to an inflexible interpretation of scripture-like ancient text rather than guiding the affairs of a modern, advanced state.

What America gets, and it really is no exaggeration, is "the best government money can buy."

The Israeli Lobby is only one of the most intense and persistent. There are many others - as for defense contractors - also doing serious long-term damage to the country.

This isn't democracy, it isn't ethical or moral, and it isn't even sane.