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Illinois guy. Film/music/literature. Animal lover. Writer. B.S. in Political Science. Non-partisan classical liberal and small-r republican. 🇺🇸
Mar 6, 2019 15 tweets 5 min read
Bernie Sanders continues to be an intellectually-vacuous amoral stooge of tremendously little substance. This so-called "debate" is actually just a campaign of fear mongering about the influence of Pro-Israel American Jews in the American political system. A thread by me. 1/10 This supposedly terrifying influence is incredibly overstated. The much-ballyhooed AIPAC simply does not appear as a top lobbying firm on any of the lists that Open Secrets puts out gauging various ways that groups influence our politics. See for yourself. opensecrets.org/lobby/