Discussion for article #229628
Oliver nails it again. Pathetic! We are so screwed.
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I will be watching tonight, but I hope he mentioned ALEC. If he didn’t, he wasted a real opportunity.
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Yea, John’s funny but Chris Rock’s digs on the Freedom Tower or the I Ain’t Never Going In There Tower on the dying SNL is what got noticed in Zurich lairs.
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Boy, howdy!
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The age of ALEC.
Oliver does it with humor, but history experts of the future will not be so kind in their expose’ of this Koch-financed conspiracy.
And anyone who doesn’t agree that it is a vast right wing conspiracy has never studied ALEC, which can quite accurately be labeled the offspring of The John Birch Society.
It only takes two to create a conspiracy, but in this case we are talking about thousands of state reps and senators, more than a few Governors and hundreds of lower level statewide officers like Kobach and Tursi, all of them bought and paid for via campaign contributions and promises of future reward.
It is hard to know exactly how many of them are now owned lock stock and barrel of oil, by Koch Industries or one of their nefarious PAC limbs. But anyone who is a member of ALEC is certainly suspect.
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ALEC, the 5th Koch Brother.
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No doubt it foments in Lansing and elsewhere, but…it all starts in Wichita.
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This is why the Koch Bros. and their minions are pouring money into STATE LEGISLATIVE races and even into Local School Board elections!
A.L.E.C. controls some 80% of state legislators now, and are only gaining ground as we lose it.
Racism, Sexism, Xenophobia, and bigotry sells very, very well at the local and state level and protects these State legislators from any serious opposition.
The Democratic party has pretty much abandoned their local legislators to concentrate on the national races and it is why voter suppression, abortion clinic restrictions, and creeping Christian Fundamentalism is beginning to take over at the State level.
This is why the Republicans want to rescind the 17th Amendment. If it went back to the State legislators to elect Senators it would be all over but the shouting.
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They could have swapped stories and Chris Rock still would have been the one who was controversial. I wonder why that is.
You bring up an excellent point. Legislature could be introduced in Congress to propose a constitutional amendment that would fly through some of these state houses. #endgame
we are soooooooo screwed if only it were that optimistic…bad thing is they use sand paper as a lub…just dont mention cactus
Thinking under the influence of blackness?
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ALEC Jones is an asshole, I totally agree.