Many of you know I am a huge fan of Sheldon Whitehouse, the junior senator from Rhode Island. He is an old fashioned liberal like Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, AOC, and John F. Kennedy. I know “liberal” is a dirty word to many people today, who think it is a synonym for a communist, socialist, progressive, tree-hugger, or dangerous radical.
Many Americans are outraged by how the Supreme Court has distorted the Constitution to protect the man who put three of them on the court.
We face three huge threats: persistent internal attacks on our democracy, unbridled climate upheaval, and a captured Court with some deeply corrupt justices. Behind each threat is dark money; massive anonymous political spending by special interests who hide their identities from the public. The political class has reoriented itself to this new reality, pivoting to the big secret spenders. Voters notice they’re not so important anymore.
Which is pathetic because voters hate dark money with a passion, Republicans, independents and Democrats alike. Polling is off the charts. Climate change is out of control because of a massive dark money politics and propaganda operation run by the fossil fuel industry. Before Citizens United, climate was a bipartisan concern ; fossil fuel dark money killed bipartisanship.