Couldn't we just outlaw foreign interference?
this post was submitted on 27 Jun 2024
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Citizens United would have made all of this a hell of a lot harder if SCOTUS hadn't ruled the other way. Now basically an unlimited amount of money can flow in from anywhere. It's more complicated than that obviously, but essentially, that's how it is now.
- Much of the spending came after a poll in March from pro-Israel group Democratic Majority for Israel showed Bowman trailing by 17 points.
So he was down 17 points pre-AIPAC money. Then after AIPAC spent a record breaking amount of money, he remained down 17 points and lost by that exact margin.
The ungodly amount of money probably didn’t radically change the opinion of what most of his constituents were going to do in the ballot box.
Maybe he would’ve closed the gap a bit, but he wasn’t in great shape to begin with.
You should definitely take the NY Post's summary of Democratic Majority for Israel's factual claim at face value, those are both highly reputable and trustworthy organizations /s
Around the same time Bowman had his own poll (the DMFI poll is effectively a pro-Latimer poll) with him up +1. Also weak for an incumbent, but there's no reason to place the baseline at -17. AIPAC money almost certainly had a strong effect on the race, otherwise they wouldn't have felt spending $14.5 million was a good use of their donation money. That's fully half of all their expenditures reported thus far. The people with full time jobs focused on influencing US policy very much believe spending money influences elections.
"It might change how they talk about [Israel]," one moderate House Democrat said of their colleagues
So stealing land, committing genocide and syphoning a huge amount of dollars for military support (leaving other programs unfunded), isn't enough. But a heavy handed influence of our elections gets their attention?
They dont know anyone being genocided personally. But losing elections, well that could happen to them personally. Sick fucks far too removed from the people they lord over to feel anything a human being may describe as compassion.