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.
