Is this checkmate? I'd like your thoughts on this article re: Barre Seid and Leonard Leo.

[NoSheep]

https://gregolear.substack.com/p/the-dark-seid?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

"The horror of the 91-year-old reclusive billionaire Barre Seid—his name rhymes with “parricide”—bequeathing $1.6 billion of his vast fortune to radical Catholic forced birth activist and Supreme Court fixer Leonard Leo did not hit home for me until this week, when I read Nina Burleigh’s article in the New Republic. Her must-read piece is titled “Who Is Leonard Leo’s New Dark Money King?,” but the question I found myself asking after finishing it was: How can democracy possibly survive this?"

[Jilly_in_VA]

1. Why doesn't our side

have someone just like Leonard Leo? I mean, the reich wingers all talk about George Soros, but he isn't really a kingmaker like Leo. He's just their scapegoat, mainly because he's Jewish.

[NoSheep]

2. That's a good question. After reading this short article, I feel like resistance is futile.

I just feel terrible and hoped someone could talk me off the ledge.

[mopinko]

3. we can only hope the sunshine helps. hard to believe the guy hasnt committed crimes, no?

surely some of his largesse is outright bribery?

[Phoenix61]

4. You can't buy votes. Really, you can't. Advertising yes, votes no.

The way to combat advertising is grass roots activism which starts with connection. The surgeon general just released an advisory on loneliness saying it’s a health risk equivalent to smoking 15 cigarettes a day. Being connected is the loneliness antidote. It’s past time to reimagine the social clubs of the ‘50 and make them relevant to the 2020’s. We aren’t going to meme our way out of this but we could pot-luck our way out of it.

[Jilly_in_VA]

7. No, but

you can sure buy judges. That's what Leonard Leo does. And politicians, like the Kochs do.

[Karadeniz]

5. We can survive by teaching kids what's really going on and getting dark money out.

[BComplex]

8. The only way to get dark money out is to re-populate the supreme court

with actual legitimate judges.

[Karadeniz]

9. I'm game!!!

[NoSheep]

10. So we need to work on Citizen's United the way the right has worked on human rights.

Yes, there's the meat of it

[UTUSN]

6. K&R