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What's happening in Wisconsin, Michigan and North Carolina is extremely dangerous: One political party is attempting to undermine election results by stripping powers from the winning candidates, solely because those candidates are from the other party... nytimes.com/2018/12/09/opi…
... In all three states, the power grab is made possible by gerrymandering. Republican legislators hold a strong majority in Wisconsin, for example -- without even having won the popular vote. These victors-by-gerrymandering are now stripping power from other elected officials...
... And it's important to note that Donald Trump isn't the cause of any of this. Other, less blatantly corrupt politicians are, as @jonathanchait points out: nymag.com/intelligencer/…
And yet as even the voters in these states are undermined, companies like Walgreens -- whose donations support anti-democracy politicians -- sit silent. So long as the companies get their tax breaks, they don't seem to care about the state's well-being. nytimes.com/2018/12/09/opi…
Walgreens spends a lot of money on ads to present a different message, one of a company that cares about society: "In this together." "All about trust." "Thank you America!" But in Wisconsin, Walgreens' actions betray these very values. youtube.com/user/walgreens…
