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In reply to the discussion: The Nazification of the Republican Party [View all]Kid Berwyn
(14,909 posts)35. Ignorance, I hope. For instance, Fossil Fuels...
How the Fossil Fuel Industry Funds Fascism
The oil, gas, and coal industries support and fund white supremacy and far-right politics.
by Basal Sen
Other Words, Jan. 21, 2021
Excerpt...
This fascist putsch was implicitly supported by some elected leaders, including GOP members of Congress who continued to promote the thoroughly debunked falsehood that the 2020 elections were stolen. Worse still, there are early indications that some elected officials may have aided the violent mob more directly as well.
But this attempted coup wouldnt have progressed to this point without large amounts of funding, too. And playing a disproportionately large role among business backers of fascism are fossil fuel companies and their owners and top executives.
My Institute for Policy Studies colleagues Chuck Collins and Omar Ocampo recently documented the top billionaire donors to the Trump campaign. In first place is Kelcy Warren, co-founder and board chair (and until last October, CEO) of Energy Transfer the company behind the controversial Dakota Access Pipeline.
Trumps wealthy backers over the years have also included the notorious (and now deceased) coal billionaire Robert Murray, who effectively bribed Trump and his former Energy Secretary Rick Perry to implement a policy agenda that would benefit Murray.
This isnt a case of a few isolated billionaires backing one extremist politician. Its a case of an entire industry filling the campaign coffers of politicians whove waged war on our democracy. In the 2020 election cycle alone, the oil and gas industries gave some $9.3 million to lawmakers who refused to certify the 2020 election results.
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https://www.commondreams.org/views/2021/01/21/how-fossil-fuel-industry-funds-fascism
Explains a lot, who gets the money.
The oil, gas, and coal industries support and fund white supremacy and far-right politics.
by Basal Sen
Other Words, Jan. 21, 2021
Excerpt...
This fascist putsch was implicitly supported by some elected leaders, including GOP members of Congress who continued to promote the thoroughly debunked falsehood that the 2020 elections were stolen. Worse still, there are early indications that some elected officials may have aided the violent mob more directly as well.
But this attempted coup wouldnt have progressed to this point without large amounts of funding, too. And playing a disproportionately large role among business backers of fascism are fossil fuel companies and their owners and top executives.
My Institute for Policy Studies colleagues Chuck Collins and Omar Ocampo recently documented the top billionaire donors to the Trump campaign. In first place is Kelcy Warren, co-founder and board chair (and until last October, CEO) of Energy Transfer the company behind the controversial Dakota Access Pipeline.
Trumps wealthy backers over the years have also included the notorious (and now deceased) coal billionaire Robert Murray, who effectively bribed Trump and his former Energy Secretary Rick Perry to implement a policy agenda that would benefit Murray.
This isnt a case of a few isolated billionaires backing one extremist politician. Its a case of an entire industry filling the campaign coffers of politicians whove waged war on our democracy. In the 2020 election cycle alone, the oil and gas industries gave some $9.3 million to lawmakers who refused to certify the 2020 election results.
Continues...
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2021/01/21/how-fossil-fuel-industry-funds-fascism
Explains a lot, who gets the money.
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I laugh each time they do this because there's always at least one asshole who does it wrong.
TheBlackAdder
Jan 2021
#44
That lady was a Trump administration official helping guide Kavanaugh into the SC
Beakybird
Jan 2021
#2
The Republican's have been suppressing voters and using gerrymandering for decades to stay in power.
jalan48
Jan 2021
#13
FOX News' Roger Ailes was a Big Fan of Leni Riefenstahl, Hitler's favorite NAZI filmmaker.
Kid Berwyn
Jan 2021
#31
The reTHUGS do their ratfucking in plain sight. Why do we let them get away with it?
abqtommy
Jan 2021
#16
There were American Nazis waiting for Hitler to take control in the 1930s...
AntiFascist
Jan 2021
#32
Madison Cawthorn's visit to Hitler's vacation home alarms his NC district's Jews
Kid Berwyn
Jan 2021
#39
They embraced it long ago and have been desperate to come out for decades.
Ford_Prefect
Jan 2021
#23