Dark Money

I would like to strongly encourage everyone that I know and everyone that I don’t know to read Jane Mayer’s richly reported (and highly upsetting) book ‘Dark Money’. While most of us probably have some sense of the undue influence that the Koch brothers (and other billionaires like them) have exerted upon the American political sphere over the last several decades, the depth, extent, and ruthlessness of their self-serving ploys to gut environmental protection laws and lower taxes for the extraordinarily wealthy at the expense of working Americans remain, I believe, poorly understood. Regardless of ideological allegiances, I would hope that all of us find it unacceptable that a tiny cadre of wealthy (mostly) men have succeeded in undermining— for their own financial gain— the safety, security, and prosperity of tens, if not hundreds, of millions of Americans. Please read 'Dark Money’.