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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDon't kid yourself: The Koch Brothers are running the US Government
Everything Benedict Donald, Moscow Mitch, and Eddie Munster Ryan have done or have attempted to do domestically is straight out of the Koch manifesto:
* Gut the EPA
* Trillions in tax cuts for corporations, thus the 1%
* Destroy Obamacare; and ultimately Medicare/Medicaid
* Defund Social Security
* Drill anywhere there maybe a drop if oil: Build more pipelines
* Try to make the press the enemy of the people
BSdetect
(8,998 posts)Includes Bannon, Conway etc etc
Cambridge Analytica etc etc
sharedvalues
(6,916 posts)mopinko
(70,089 posts)TryLogic
(1,723 posts)Initech
(100,067 posts)Recursion
(56,582 posts)And they also oppose him on trade
not fooled
(5,801 posts)they took over the U.S. without firing a shot. Their organization is bigger and more effective than the Republican party.
And yet, the complicit corporate media barely mentions their name.
On the contrary, their crackpot radical extremist ideas get free rein and are presented as legitimate policy without sufficient discussion of their origin, selfish aims, or destructive effect on the nation.
They have used money to undo democracy.
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)guess those kind of wealthy get a mental rush from hurting people.
spike91nz
(180 posts)the Koch family originally got its money from setting up oil refineries in Russia. Their ties to the Russian money go deep and in the US becomes entangled in the John Birch Society, whose design upon the US policies are not only elitist and religiously authoritarian, but racist and sexist, from its inception. This is a family that appears to feel entitled to rule and supplant democracy with neofascism.
Coventina
(27,110 posts)What an evil family.
Ugh.