After reading this book you will have serious ethical inhibitions voting for Republican candidates, so be ye warned.

Several times this quote by Louis D. Brandeis appears: "We must make our choice. We may have democracy, or we may have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." Out of context, this may sound like something that is super pro-socialist, but the book does a very good job of showing how true it is.

The final chapter gives a few relevant numbers regarding estimated spending during the 2016 election cycle:
- Democratic Party - $1 billion
- Republican Party - $1 billion
- Koch bros and billionaire friends (minus Trump, btw) - $889 million
Those numbers alone should make you do a double-take and question what the motivation is, because they obviously believe they will get good returns on their investment.

(note: 4/5 stars because sometimes Mayer uses language that is obviously biased and it's hard to see what her sources are... describing the expressions of people, quoting bloggers without giving specifics, etc)