The broken GOP has a majority in the House in name only. It’s giving frightening new meaning to the old saw about politicians’ forming a circular firing squad.
The broken GOP has a majority in the House in name only. It’s giving frightening new meaning to the old saw about politicians’ forming a circular firing squad.
It’s an interesting concept, to think that it’s the small dollar donors enabling this. But I think that the real culprit here are the super large, dark money donors. You know, the ones that Republicans opened up the floodgates to as part of that Citizens United thing. Money is Speech, and all that.
I don’t think that when the Supreme Court made that ruling, they intended for it to be a conduit for direct foreign influence on politicians. But the independent, unaccountable political spending that Citizens United enables has to be funded from somewhere. And it’s trivially easy for these foreign sources to disguise their money trail to make things look legit. (Or, do you really think Bob Menendez is the only foreign agent in Congress?)
If you were a foreign power looking to neutralize the US Government, your best bet might be to use back channels to fund enough stubborn Congressmen to get them in office, and tell them to raise as much hell as they want to, and not compromise with anyone, because you will have their back.
yes. citizens unites is the worst thing we have politically. I would rid it above all other things as much of the rest would get resolved for the better by it not being a thing.
But that’s the thing, like with most of our country those massive donors aren’t evenly distributed amongst the party. The super super pacs seem to have settled into the people they felt most able to get their agenda done and left out the others and they have been working with literally a smaller budget from smaller donors and thus don’t feel as beholden to making the system, that isn’t working for them as much as their peers, keep working.
And then allowing money to speak and anyone with some money having a say just makes it worse and a thousand voices trying to be the loudest and the richest at the end of this road.