Saturday, April 23, 2011

How Lobbies Distort US Politics

By Lawrence Davidson
April 23, 2011

The influence of lobbies and special interests is a structural part of the U.S. political system and has been so since the founding of the nation. This being the case, the United States is not really a democracy of individuals. Rather, it is a democracy of competing interest groups or factions.

Read on.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

who is b.s.ing whom? That quisling davidson is a lobby....

Anonymous said...

Israel rules via AIPAC.

neocons led by the leading Iraq war promotors like W.Kristol & Wolfowitz demanded Obama attack Libya.

His Masters Voice comes from Tel Aviv.

James Young said...

"the United States is not really a democracy of individuals"

Gee. What was your first clue? Maybe, that we're a REPUBLIC!?!?!

It's reassuring that the author has read Federalist No. 10. Next time, perhaps he can try to understand it.

Peter Loeb said...

WHEN ON ATTACK, REMAIN PERSONAL
AND "ANONYMOUS"

Professor Davidson's insights
remain relevant and insightful.

Hopefully when those "anonymous"
contributors overcome their rage,
they will read Davidson's AMERICA'S
PALESTINE and FOREIGN POLICY, INC.
hopefully in that order.

Another excellent resource is:
WORLD IN CRISIS: THE END OF THE
AMERICAN CENTURY by Historian
Gabriel Kolko (Plutro Press,
2009, available in paperback, See:
Ch. 4, "Israel: A Stalemated
Accident of History" pp 86-110)

I humbly refer you to my comment/
blog in response to Davidson's
"Israel's Lobbification of Congress" of April 17, 2011. My
comment was titled:

SCHEDULING DIFFICULTIES

email: peterloeb@yahoo.com

There are, of course many other resources as well.

Anonymous said...

We always get the best politicians that money can buy.

People are so stupid they will follow the talking heads who are paid by a neocon Zionist owned main stream media.

That is why the Iraq war is known as Rupert's war.