Ratf**ked
The True Story Behind the Secret Plan to Steal America's Democracy
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Narrated by:
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Brian Sutherland
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David Daley
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The explosive account of how Republican legislators and political operatives fundamentally rigged our American democracy through redistricting.
With Barack Obama's historic election in 2008, pundits proclaimed the Republicans as dead as the Whigs of yesteryear. Yet even as Democrats swooned, a small cadre of Republican operatives, including Karl Rove, Ed Gillespie, and Chris Jankowski, began plotting their comeback with a simple yet ingenious plan. These men had devised a way to take a tradition of dirty tricks - known to political insiders as "ratf**king" - to a whole new unprecedented level. Flooding state races with a gold rush of dark money made possible by Citizens United, the Republicans reshaped state legislatures, where the power to redistrict is held.
Reconstructing this never-told-before story, David Daley examines the far-reaching effects of this so-called REDMAP program, which has radically altered America's electoral map and created a firewall in the House, insulating the party and its wealthy donors from popular democracy. Ratf**ked pulls back the curtain on one of the greatest heists in American political history.
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- S. Prokop
- 15-11-18
Time to change
If there has been dissatisfaction with democratic representation for so long, then why the deafening silence? A number of solutions have been presented, presidents from Reagan to Obama have recommended cjange. It is the current system of redistricting that has lead to the fractures and extremism by the inner workings of competition WITHIN the GOP that may lead to civil war.
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