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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe Dark Money Is on a Contested Convention and Paul Ryan
The Kochs seem to be leaning in that direction as well. An unnamed source "close to" the Koch brothers told The Huffington Post that Charles Koch believes Ryan is a "shoo-in" for the nomination at a brokered GOP convention. Koch Industries has long been one of Representative Ryan's top contributors, and now is one of Speaker Ryan's biggest boosters. This quarter, the Koch's are helping to fuel his staggering $17 million war chest, reports Politico. Charles Koch, CEO of Koch Industries, and his wife gave his "Team Ryan" fundraising vehicle $488,400 in March alone; Koch Industries gave $71,000.
When Obama was first elected, Charles Koch gathered together a coalition of over 700 American megamillionaires and billionaires to fight the threat to their hegemony from the left. When Charles Koch speaks, he's speaking for an army battling for control of our nation.
The only legitimate purposes of government are protection of person and property - Charles Koch
FreakinDJ
(17,644 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)a potentially critical development in the plot to completely destroy progressive government, to literally make progressivism in government illegal, and you play games?
ProudToBeBlueInRhody
(16,399 posts)....they fucking embrace them.....
Hortensis
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for themselves, for their children, for the rest of their lives. It will take decades to undo the harm hard-core conservatism has already done to the socioeconomic wellbeing of the various working classes, and a lot more to undo what they are planning now.
These people believe inequality is the natural state of man, social and economic. The very notion of the rabble taking large-scale progressive action through government is anathema.
Our new democratic republic thrived because Thomas Jefferson and men like him believed compulsory, publicly funded education for all voters was absolutely necessary. Their view prevailed over the intense opposition of conservative leaders who thought educating the lower orders was dangerously foolish. 225 years later, conservative extremists intend to fix this really bad mistake, and many other "mistakes" a majority of Americans so foolishly chose to make, especially over the past 100 years. Like Social Security, unemployment insurance, the EPA, etc., etc., etc., etc.
Obviously, the popular vote is a severe problem. They need control of SCOTUS in order to control just what we can vote for and against.
JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,362 posts)Any of them would happily cut Social Security.
ProudToBeBlueInRhody
(16,399 posts)Sorry, bub.
.... taking millions from and being beholden to the banksters is REAL PROGRESSIVE.
wiggs
(7,817 posts)the general election"
They've found the EXACT way this has to happen. There is no republican that can win a primary via citizen voting and also win the general election. So...gop voters will be ignored to install a nominee who either didn't run at all or ran and lost...
sendero
(28,552 posts)... the possibility that Ryan's denial and refusal rhetoric is merely innoculant against what the convention does. He claims to be the hero under protest to dull the rage that many would feel - to shift the rage away from him and to the "machine" instead.