Web of Democratic Corruption: How Groups Like AIPAC Funnel Money to Private Companies

You have no idea the complexity of the corruption of your political system. I mean, you can take an example. Say a lobby, a political lobby. The the popular one, of course, is IPAC or APAC. They spent some 6 or 7 something million dollars to to unseat an incumbent Democrat, Corie Bush.

She was the incumbent, and then there was a Democratic candidate that was challenging her named Wesley Bell. Corie Bush made many statements against IPAC, and many statements against Israel, and against Zionism and so on. She she made she took a very strong stance, rhetorical stance anyway, against Israel and specifically against IPAC. Saying, for example, I'm going to burn your kingdom down, I'm going to tear your kingdom down, IPAC. IPAC, I'm going to tear your kingdom down.

This is something that she said. Okay. So, IPAC mobilized millions of dollars to support her rival, And then her rival, of course, got the nomination. Okay. But think it through.

There's a whole ecosystem here. This is what's actually happening. What you're actually looking at is an is an entire ecosystem of political funding that is just a source of revenue. It's the it's the same way that the military industrial complex, for example, the same way that the military industrial complex takes taxpayer dollars and moves it into the private sector. Something like IPAC or any other lobby.

IPAC is just an example because it's highly ideological. Other other lobbies are less ideological, like say the, you know, dairy lobby or something, or the farmers a lobby for farmers or agriculture or something like this. But an ideologically based political lobby, like IPAC, is a good example because they mobilize donations, they mobilize contributions, they mobilize their donor funding on an ideological basis. So when you have a Corie Bush saying, I'm going to tear down IPAC's kingdom, and she's taking a pro Palestinian, anti Israeli stance, that becomes very easy for IPAC to mobilize donors, to mobilize contributors from the from American people, from Jewish people, and from Christian evangelicals and so forth. Their fund their funding source is this, donations.

So, you're able to mobilize this huge amount of money. Okay. So now, IPAC has this huge amount of money, and then they're going to give it to Wesley Bell or to whatever politician might you might be talking about. But what does that politician do with it? They hire political strategists, consultants, they hire PR firms, they hire polling experts, firms that do polling, agencies that do polling, and of course, they hire media companies to produce advertisements.

Okay. So this is funneling private citizens' money into those companies. That's all it is. This is those companies now, basically being run. They're for profit companies, but they're basically being funded through donations, through donations to IPEC.

And then there's connections between a firm like Berlin Rosen. There's a connection between them and the United Democracy Project, is IPAC affiliate. So IPAC gives the money to UDP, and then UDP gives the money to the campaign. The campaign gives the money to, say, example, Berlin Rosen, hire them to do political strategy. Now, don't know if this is the case with with with the the Wesley Bell campaign or not.

But this is generally how it works. Berlin Rosen is one of the most prominent and influential and successful political strategy organizations or consultancies in The United States. So very likely, and they're they're always on the being called upon by the Democrats. So very likely they were recruited to do this work. So now there's a connection between UDP and Berlin Rosen because the cofounder of Berlin Rosen is on the board of directors, I believe, of UDP.

So that means there's a connection between IPAC and Berlin Rosen, political strategists. So IPAC is taking money from their donors, and then they're just giving it to these companies by means of a candidate, by means of a political campaign. So there's a whole ecosystem. It's like a cottage industry connected with a political lobby. You understand?

So the political lobby uses the ideology to mobilize donations, and then those donations just go for capitalist purposes. That's where the money goes. It goes from the pockets of the donors into the bank accounts of private companies that are hired by a campaign. It's an incredibly corrupt system. And the and the public is sidelined because also, once the politician is elected, the one who is advising the politician, advise in quotes, is those same private strategists, those private company strategists, those private consultants.

They're the advisers. Politicians have paid staff that's paid by the taxpayers. They have their own staff. They have their own administration. They have their own cabinet.

But they're relying on private consultants for what their policies are going to be and how they're going to respond to this or that situation. So these people in the private sector are controlling the policies of the politicians who they help to elect. This is what people need to understand about what is meant when you talk about, you know, money in politics. The money in politics isn't in politics so much as it is in business. It's taking the the the individual donations of voters, of Democrats, of Republicans, and then of ideologically motivated people, like someone who is pro choice or anti abortion or pro death penalty, anti death penalty, they want more people on the Supreme Court or what have you.

These all these are all of these issues, the only reason they exist and the only reason that they put those issues in your mind is to get the money out of your pocket. That's all it is. They try to find anything that will trigger you. They try to push your buttons, the things that you care about or that they think you care about, and whatever resonates the most, then they know that that will motivate you to give political donations to this candidate or that candidate. And a political donation to this candidate or that candidate, all that is is money that's going into this other ecosystem of the private sector, of these political consultants, media companies, polling companies, obviously lawyers, obviously advertising and PR agencies and so forth.

All you're doing is funding an ecosystem. And those and it's connected again with other sections of the private sector because all of those companies also do work and their clients include a variety of industries, a variety of corporations and companies. The one that I just mentioned that works with the democrats. Well, one of their one of their clients is Google. They have major corporate clients.

So these are all connected. All of these private entities, these private business entities are connected with each other. The advertising industry, the PR industry, the consultancies, all of them are connected, and they all work for the private sector. And then, they incorporate into their work and how they serve their clients. One of the things that they incorporate into how they serve their clients is by electing this or that politician.