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Ratf**ked
- The True Story Behind the Secret Plan to Steal America's Democracy
- Narrated by: Brian Sutherland
- Length: 9 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Categories: Politics & Social Sciences, Politics & Government
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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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- OK Pete
- 19-03-17
Skip around; it's vital reading, but may be too much for some
A very important book! The layout of the book is a little lost in audio version, as most of it is broken down one state per chapter. In print I noticed my friends could pick a chapter based on state and read. Going straight through was a little repetitive at times, and it's super important to get to the last three chapters which capture the core learning of the writer. So if you get bored, skip to the last three chapters!
8 people found this helpful
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- Anthony Diaz
- 24-08-16
Politicians Should Not Get to Choose their Voters
Ratf**ked shows in stark detail how a shrinking political party manipulated district lines to ensure its long-term control of key US institutions. After the 2010 GOP mid-term wave, party lawmakers gerrymandered districts to cement their party's gains against future election losses. The abuse of redistricting is literally older than the republic, but here took place on a scale so far unseen in US politics. The GOP padlocked itself into statehouses from Florida to Alaska & into an almost unchallengeable House majority. In state after state, the 2014 elections showed that the majority could vote Democrat, but Republicans would still get most of the representatives. The bottom line is simple: voters must be the ones choosing their representatives; politicians should never be allowed to choose their voters, protect incumbency, skew election results, or doom opponents by manipulating district lines.
11 people found this helpful
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- Michelle
- 19-06-17
A must read
This is an amazing, eye opening book. It helped me make sense of some political agendas and how they effect the American political processes. I left this book angry, but motivated. Highly recommended.
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- SFHandyman
- 12-11-16
Daddy, where do partisan bullies come from?
I now know why the government is full of whiney bullies who shut down the government at every opportunity.
We no longer have compromise. The Republicans want absolute power and set the wheels in motion to lock it in before the last census. They don't care if the popular vote is won by Democrats. They don't have to. We will never get reasonable government until we can repair and replace the gerrymandered disaster that David Daley explains so well.
As the country increases in diversity, the Republicans see their dominance fading and will do anything to maintain Controll. They will do anything possible to block, rescind, or devalue Democratic votes.
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- aklouie
- 18-06-17
Great topic. Boring narration.
This was an interesting, informative and utterly important book - despite the narrator's best efforts to put you to sleep. It would behoove us to end the undemocratic and unconstitutional practice of gerrymandering, lest it ends democracy for us.
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- TM
- 25-10-16
If You Feel Like Something's Wrong with American Politics...
This book will illuminate exactly why you have that feeling.
A small and extreme group within the Republican party has somehow gotten disproportionate power in the House since 2010.
Republican politicians campaign against their fellow republicans to their right, rather than against their democratic opponents.
This book explains exactly why.
As a nation we need to work hard to find better solutions for apolitical redistricting (nothing will be perfect, but we have to try).
We need a left of center party and a right of center party, or a multi-party system. We don't don't need a wing nut party that paralyzes political discussion and blocks any national problem solving!
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- curtis howe
- 16-08-16
Great book!
This is a great book to read if you want to understand the secret mess US politics is in! It will open your eyes to see what our future challenges will be. Well worth reading.
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- B.Jay
- 18-09-18
Terrifying
This is important reading for anyone who cares about the democratic process. Our institutions are being twisted in a way Founding Father's feared. Recovery will not be easy
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- Cate
- 16-08-17
This one will shake you to your core
We've all known about political gerrymandering, the boring, backroom re-drawing of district lines to protect incumbents. Ratf**cked describes the GOP takeover of our democracy through its "Red Map" strategy, a disaster author David Dailey thinks will be in place for decades. Hopefully, he is wrong. Like most pundits, he predicted HRC would win, though he said she would be unable to govern; this due to the hyper-partisan Congressional districts that GOP dominated State legislatures have put in place. So, while he could describe The Freedom Caucus's takedown of Boehner, the end of Congressional moderates, and the impossibility of passing legislation, he had no inkling of Trump. Read this book!
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- stephen
- 11-09-16
good info
learning how our vote is being distorted and manipulated has made me get more active in politics
5 people found this helpful