John Macgregor posted this on X

 

Obama came in about the middle of the period in which US presidents were wholly captured by the Israel lobby.

The 'capture' appears to intensify through time.

It has given us the American presidential obsession with endless middle Eastern wars.

When The Lobby has bought both the political class & the media narrative - Biden & Trump, New York Times & Facebook, et al - that's it. The umpires & gatekeepers are captured.

That's why we have the surreal spectacle of a genocide far worse than anything that happened in Yugoslavia in the 1990s or Iraq under Saddam—& the entire government structure & media are frozen, as if nothing's happening.

Without the right constitutional protections in place - nobody listened to the Founders about updating the Constitution to match the times - over time the system gets bought.

The Constitution cannot 'see' the gaming & rigging that has grown up around it.

Just about every problem stems from that.

Numerous parties—American & non-American—hold franchises over one part of the government or another.

Under Bush II, the Saudis apparently purchased immunity for their role in 9/11. Under Obama the financial sector purchased immunity for the consequences of the GFC.

Under Biden, the Chinese secured one slice of the southern border racket, and the Mexican gangs another.

The Israel lobby purchased a US war against Syria, & Pharma purchased immunity for the harms caused by its vaccines.

So in the end this isn't an Israel problem, but a state capture problem.

It'll continue till we reform our political architecture.

*Adapted from The Mechanics of Changing the World: Political Architecture to Roll Back State & Corporate Power. (Constitutional structures to eliminate the influence of wealth in government, the economy, science, medicine & war—& to repel foreign manipulation of our politics.)