I was recently watching an an interview with Leonard Leo where he pretty openly speaks about how he targets various “chokepoints” like courts (and other things) to take over them and get what he wants using the infrastructure he built:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yH5GNe1Xqo&t=804s
Obviously we have seen this on both sides, but it is getting more and more frequent and open, open in a sense that we know who actors are, but they use dark money to do it. How big of an issue is this to you and how would you actually solve it? I mean concretely, people say “overturn citizens united”, but how would you do that?
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I was recently watching an an interview with Leonard Leo where he pretty openly speaks about how he targets various “chokepoints” like courts (and other things) to take over them and get what he wants usingthe infrastructure he built:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yH5GNe1Xqo&t=804s
Obviously we have seen this on both sides, but it is getting more and more frequent and open, open in a sense that we know who actors are, but they use dark money to do it. How big of issue is this to you and how would you actually solve it? I mean concretely, people say “overturn” citizens united, but how would you do that?
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It’s the most important issue facing global politics. But we aren’t going to agree on it. We think it’s a symptom, conservatives seem to think it’s a cause.
The issue is we are simply allowing some people to accumulate too much wealth.