Nice liberal paranoia thread.
How many jobs have YOU created?
Your willful ignorance is noted.
The Koch brothers’ political machine is expanding into new states and recruiting new donors as it seeks to shape the Republican Party — and its presidential field — headed into 2016, according to interviews with multiple sources, as well as confidential donor briefing documents obtained by POLITICO.
Read more:
Secret Koch memo outlines plans for 2016 - Kenneth P. Vogel - POLITICO
"Top officials in the Koch brothers' political organization Monday released a staggering $889 million budget to fund the activities of the billionaires' sprawling network ahead of the 2016 presidential contest....
"The fundraising target is the latest indication that the industrialists at the center of the network, Charles and David Koch, intend to continue building an operation that could exceed the national political parties in size and scope to help advance their libertarian principles. The spending, unrivaled for an outside organization, represents more than double the nearly $400 million the Republican National Committee (RNC) raised and spent during the 2012 presidential election cycle."
Full article here:
Koch brothers set 889 million budget for 2016
IMO, this effort by members of the 0.01% is nothing less than a bloodless coup, and if it succeeds it will put the last nail into the coffin of Democracy in America. No longer can it be denied that we are a Plutocracy, and that every man, woman and child will be at the mercy of this new Aristocracy, and governed by elected officials on every level of government owned by an Oligarchy of the power elite.
Considering we have had the same people in power for the last 40 years it would appear to me that this is more of a plutcracy than a democracy. We are being governed by the same group of people.
I disagree, the meme that the Democrats and Republicans are one and the same is no longer true, if it ever was. What is true is money = power, and five members of the US Supreme Court made Money = Free Speech, changing forever the concept that we are a nation of the people, by the people or for the people.
We, the 99% of Americans, are facing a new enemy, a domestic one intent on getting and keeping power for generations. The machinations of the Koch Brothers are threatening a system of government by the people which worked - not always well - for over two centuries.
My hope with this thread is to get people thinking, and considering other outcomes than the one they hear from demagogues and charlatans, and the willfully ignorant who parrot the propaganda of those who seek power.
Agreed that most on the right suffer from willful ignorance on the issue.
Agreed that the notion that the democratic and republican parties are 'the same' is a lie; indeed, it's a failed attempt to deflect from the fact that fearful, reactionary conservatives such as the Koch brothers will use their power, money, and influence to force a rightist agenda on the Americans people hostile to citizens' civil rights.
Disagree with regard to the
Citizens United ruling, where the Court appropriately invalidated Federal law that violated the First Amendment. The
Citizens United Court was not 'endorsing' the undue influence money has on our political process, nor was the Court ignoring the need for campaign finance reform – rather, the Court merely prohibited one measure to address the problem, requiring the people to seek out another solution.
Ultimately it's incumbent upon the American people to educative themselves as to the issues, to vote in an informed and intelligent manner, and to reject the lies and demagoguery common to most on the right.