Thread by @cdrsalamander

I haven't I think once mentioned it here, but I've been watching the Murdaugh family rolling nightmare for awhile as though I don't know them - I know their social class/culture because, it is mine. I "know" them.

The Netflix docu, BTW, is incredibly good.

While I was
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...doing some work in the orchard this AM it came to mind something missing in this story. Well established, powerful families in the South, as everywhere, are deeply political. They run the political machines in their area - especially when they are politicians themselves.
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...Besides mentioning the offices the family held and the influence they had in the courts in law enforcement, no mention of politics - and I cannot recall any mention of party politics either.

I started to think, "No, couldn't be. This isn't intentional ... it can't be what
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...I think it is, could it?"

Well, once again ... of course.

Now it is clear as day why this specific topic in the #MurdaughFamily isn't discussed.

I'll let you see it for yourself: opensecrets.org/donor-lookup/r…
Of course.

As I dug around, what I found is that what little you
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...find was very carefully scoped as to what they reported (good example here islandpacket.com/news/local/cri… ) ... and obviously avoided what was the easiest thing to find out - contributions to candidates via OpenSecrets like I did one tweet up.

This isn't accidental - this is
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...is intentional.

Almost everything, it seems, is political.

If Alex Murdaugh in 2020 maxed out ... well, again - read the link above.

No wonder no one likes the "media."

BT

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