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Originally Posted by Huehuecoyotl
People confuse political influence and identity for money in the political system of their opponents as well. The NRA is imagined as a giant money rich organization because they have so much clout. During that gun control town hall Hogg tried to tell Marco Rubio that he could raise just as much from the gun control people as the NRA and Rubio tired to explain he takes their money and he agrees with them. Hogg was thinking it was purely transactional when it's a bit of both.
While I could be convinced by good citations, my argument is that, analogous to the NRA, where, you may only get a fairly modest amount of money by being pro-NRA but miss out on a lot of money from not the NRA but from NRA-adjacent groups by being anti-NRA, it is similar for Israel, where Israel isn't referring necessarily Jewish people in general but the particulars of the nation state of Israel and its adversarial nature towards nearby Muslim nations and its own internal Palestinian population. Non-AIPAC but conservative-aligned groups expect you to "support Israel" even if it means really that supporting Israel is a proxy for what they really care about
: hating Muslims in any and all forms, or maybe bringing about the apocalypse.