Look Nick: things like “Hitler was cool” or “I admire Stalin” will destroy you. People will even say you are Deep State or Mossad to discredit all other criticism of the Sionists you claim to despise. There is valid criticism of excessive US politician’s support for Israel although in my opinion Israel and the American Jews and Jewish organisations supporting Israel they are just better at lobbying and pressuring US politicians than anybody else. if they had the money and power and organisational ability; would not the Islamists, the Indians, the Hispanics, the Blacks, the Italians, the Poles, the Native Americans, big Pharma, big Farm, big Weapons, big unions, big Health, big Insurance, big Manufacturing, big Retail and on and on, would influence the politicians just like Israel and its friends in the US do.
Do not blame Israel and its supporters, unless they do illegal things which sometimes they might do, do not blame the politicians supporting Israel to levels you might consider wrong because they often seem to place the interests of Israel ahead of US interests. The politicians can not duly do what the voters who elected them want them to do.
Here lies the reason why Republican and Democrat politicians at the federal level and state level have to satisfy the lobbies on the issues that are very important for the lobbies.
1. The US Constitution grants all political power to the political class. This is a very strong motivator for all lobbies to find ways to pressure-have the ear of all politicians. The lobbies know politicians need money to win primaries and election to office, have media support (old media or new media) and also need or want to secure a good living after leaving politics when they retire or lose an election. Lobbies are prepared to spend lots of money backing politicians who back their interestd and use “donations” in money or in kind to win the favour of politicians. sometimes the lobbies will donate money if the pilitician promises, for example, to oppose universal health care, sometimes they increase the pressure by telling the politician that if he is not prepared to help they have no choice but to donate to a rival, perhaps because the other guy is warmer or less hostile to the wishes of the lobby. Yes, another lobby will donate if the politician supports universal health care, the “winning” is the one with more money and or more influence over voters. In other words, the more powerful lobby is more likely to win the support of the politician to criticise the opponents of the wishes of the lobby, vote to pass a law or regulation favouring the lobby, etc. in one wsy or anorher all politicians owe big favours to onebor another or several lobbies because every politician is contacted and gets donations from many lobbies; the same politician might get money from the big Pharma lobby to lower the criteria for what is considered high blood pressure, this means that doctos will prescribe medication for patients that under the current criteria would not be medicated. The new criteria generates millions or even billions in profits for the producers of the drugs every year forever. Quite rationally, such companies are happy to continue helping the politician with never ending “donations”, millions in advances for his new book, big money for speaking engagements, appointment to company boards and on and on. Lobbies also work on and with top bureaucrats; sonetimes a employee of a company is appointed to a government position im which he can influence the politician with the “appropiate” opinion, sonetimes with his own decisions applying policy or law, etc. There are one million ways for lobbies to influence politicians. Another one is saying “honest” things like: “if the new criteria for blood pressure is approved we will need to expand our production capacity to serve your area of the country and will need a new factory ( distribution center) whatever, in your state.
Your imagination is the limit as of how many lobbies donate money and other benefits to politicians.
of course, politicians are good demagogues, Trump included, and will speak in ways to please the ear of the people with catchy slogans and promises.
2. Another huge factor that breaks the democratic goal of doing what the majoritu of voters want is that the US Constitution considers lobbying part of the democratic process. You can guess who has the money, resources, staff, media contacts or even owns medis to lobby politicians. Yes, it is the lobbies not the average voter.
3. To kill the democratic process forever the US Supreme Court ruled some 20 years ago that using money in politics in the form of campaign donations, political action commitees, etc., is part of free expression, like free expression, there must not be a limit on how much money can be used in political campaigns.
The rest is what we know ALL US poluticians have to please one lobby one rich person or another, orherwise there is no way his campaign will be competitive, each US politician is indebted to one lobby or another and often to several. The Israeli lobby is not the problem, neither is the pharma lobby or any other, the problem is the US Constitution.
The remedy to bring real democracy to the US and othet democrscies lies in what the Swiss did in the 1800s when they ammended their US-inspired constitution; they transferred final authority over any law or policy and over the Constitution from politocians and judges to the people. In other words Swiss lobbies have little teeth because ANYTHING politicians decide can be overthrown by people. In other words, Swiss lobbies know that politicians have to be highly in tune with the will of the people. Big business or any other lobby in Switzerland has to make its case to the people. In other words, the democrstics filter of the people directly deciding has to be passed. In the case of support for Israel, the Anerican Jews who want the high level of support Israel gets from the US, would have to gather a number of signatures, perhaps 1/2% of registred voters with a proposal for specific assistance for Israel and the proposal would go to a binding referendum. Such way of addressing important issues is really democratic and will remove the current highly polarized discussion, antisemitism included from US politics. Of course the fear of anothet Hitler will not be present. Israel would have much more reliable support. Yes, perhaps Isrsel would have had to act with more restrain in Gaza so as not to alienate the majority of Americans but would retain support to ensure its survival. in other words the lobby system of the US is endangering the long term survival of Israel and even the safety of Jews in the US. The Swiss system would aldo prevent the suicidal distraction that the discussion over Israel causes and prevent attention to the real enemy of civilisation which is for all of us CCP-run China.
Time to bring the Swiss system.
