Koch Brother Scumbags and The Best Elections Money Can Buy

In this Majority Report clip, dark money lead to gerrymandering, voter suppression, and Trump.

"In the summer of 2011, soon after activists occupied the rotunda of the Wisconsin state capitol to protest Walker's bill stripping public-employee unions of collective-bargaining rights, Republican members of the legislature visited the offices of Michael Best & Friedrich, the party's go-to law firm. The GOP was in control of the state's redistricting process for the first time since the 1950s, and Republicans were shown to the "map room," where their aides were drawing new political districts in secret following the 2010 census. The legislators signed confidentiality agreements, pledging not to discuss the work with anyone, even though the redistricting was financed with taxpayer funds. "Public comments on this map may be different than what you hear in this room," read the talking points distributed to GOP legislators. "Ignore the public comments."

The new maps had titles like "Aggressive," to describe how they favored Republicans. "The maps we pass will determine who's here 10 years from now," a legislative aide told the Republican caucus. "We have an opportunity . . . to draw these maps that Republicans haven't had in decades.""*

[wgjung]

These Koch guys are the kind of people that make you think: "maybe Robespierre wasn't such a bad guy and he had a point".

[okrajoe]

Unlimited donations, what could go wrong???

[rosecityremona]

Yep - one of their first steps was to make it very difficult to replace your ID. To get ID you need your birth certificate. To get your birth certificate you need

[yakojjy]

Presidential elections are basically gerrymandered by unequal Voter : Electoral Vote ratios. When one person in Wyoming has as much Electoral Representation as 4 people in California or New York, the system is essentially gerrymandered.

[lauracullen]

It is interesting to consider how many of these ultra-super-mega rich humanoids having every advantage available make the transition and become devoid of any social conscience toward their fellow human beings less fortunate than themselves. Is their need for excesses of everything everywhere so severe that they are blinded to a dead body in a coffin, previously rich or poor, remains forever dead. What did living teach them?

[wayneplaisted]

Electoral votes should not exist it's not right and unfair to the people that care about our country

[beeyaybaracas]

Biffworld from Back to the Future 2 is a libertarian wet dream