06-27-2024, 02:02 PM
(06-27-2024, 01:28 PM)hollodero Wrote: Yeah I imagined, I just went along with your example regarding NATO concerns over Trump and whether expressing them consitutes election interference.
Giving money to candidates sure is interference, and that presidential campaigns are exempt from AIPAC donations doesn't really ease my uneasiness about that. But sure, that does not start and end with AIPAC and there certainly are more dubious PACs around, it's just still extra weird to me when it happens on behalf of a foreign country. Or say I can at least not blame or disparage folks that are not thrilled about it.
You've hit the issue I most have a problem with here. AIPAC is hardly unique, nor as you point out even close to the most shady PAC. Yet it seems to be singled out quite a lot, especially by members of "the squad". Bowman did so here, Bush just singled them out today. Omar and Tlaib have singled them out in the past. It makes one wonder if there's more at play here than simple objection to PAC's and money in politics.
