Alexandra Petri Quotes
Rule of Dark Matter: SuperPAC dollars cannot be seen by most voters but account for most of the money in this universe.
This is a very clever analogy to an aspect of astronomy and physics. Most of the mass in the universe is dark matter which is invisible to human sensors and instruments and hence cannot be seen. Yet they have the most gravitational effect on matter that can be seen.
Alexandra Petri, Blogger, ComPost Blog, "The 3 most important laws of Political physics", The Washington Post, August 8, 2015
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At the time this was a very widely held, bipartisan view. See {634818} . Given statements like this, TR if he were alive today would never be able to get the Republican Nomination for President; nor could he obtain the Democratic Nomination because of his view on the military, expansionism, defense spending and war.
He had been serving as a University President. One change was the unlimited corporate funds that could then be donated to campaigns by corporations. “Super-Pacs” were one of these vehicles. Kerrey refused to use them. His opponent did not. His opponent was able to spend much more money on his campaign. Kerrey lost.
The Citizens United case held that it was unconstitutional to limit the amount of money that corporations could spend political campaigns.
Alexandra Petri is an American humorist and newspaper columnist. In 2010, she became the youngest person to have a column in The Washington Post. Petri runs the ComPost blog on the paper's website, on which she formerly worked with Dana Milbank. In 2017, a piece of satire she wrote about president Donald Trump was miscategorized as news and included in one of the White House's daily press briefings. She was recognized in the Forbes 30 Under 30 in 2018.
