The real problem is all the dark money, enabled by the 2010 Citizens United ruling

[vlyons]

Money is not speech. All that unlimited dark money funding the campaigns of RW extremeists at all levels is our main problem. Oligarchs made an unspoken deal with the RW racists. We'll support your racist culture issues in exchange giving us unfair tax advantages.

[TwilightZone]

1. The problem dates much further back than that.

This was a 50-year project. It was ramped up by Reagan and the Moral Majority, further accelerated by people like Newt Gingrich, and has been in process at the state levels for decades.

[Meadowoak]

3. +1

[lindysalsagal]

2. Unable to reply for fear of being ejected.

But I wish I could support your thread.