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    How the Koch brothers built the most powerful rightwing group you've never heard of

    Preface; Read the blockbuster book; "Democracy in Chains" about how the Koch machine wants to end democracy forever.

    From The Guardian:

    Americans for Prosperity is a little-known, billionaire-funded organization that has pushed US politics to the right. How did it happen?

    The cries of “Shame! Shame! Shame!” rang throughout the marbled walls of the Wisconsin state assembly chamber. Disgusted Democratic politicians, some of whom had been up for over 60 hours by this point, punctuated their chants by throwing papers – and even drinks – at their fellow Republicans. Police officers had to be summoned to physically separate one Democratic representative yelling “Cowards!” across the aisle.

    The source of this confrontation, in the early hours of February 2011, was an unprecedented push by Wisconsin Republicans, led by the state’s newly elected Republican governor, Scott Walker, to slash the union rights held by most public workers. Walker argued that budget woes in the state necessitated the shift, and barrelled forward to eliminate the rights of virtually all public-sector workers to collectively bargain with government and to allow government employees to opt-out of paying dues to their unions.

    At first blush this might seem like a years-old local issue in a US state that rarely lights up the international headlines. Yet events in Wisconsin are crucial to understanding how a little-known, billionaire-funded organization, called Americans for Prosperity (AFP), has tilted American politics to the right. It is intertwined with, and rivals in size, the Republican party itself.

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    This book is a must re












    This book is a must read!
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    5.0 out of 5 starsThe Buchanan/Koch plan is nothing less than creation of an Oligarchy, and to create laws to keep it that way. And it's working.
    May 14, 2018Format: HardcoverVerified Purchase
    I was glued to this book and have recommended it to several friends, James Buchanan developed a master plan and the Kochs had the money to implement the plan to do nothing less than shift our Democracy to Oligarchy. And its working. The reasons for billionaires in the cabinet positions, who are destroying whole sectors of government such as Education, the EPA, consumer protection, the VA become clear. As do the reasons for so much polarization and the successful effort to overtake the supreme court in Buchanan's plan.

    It is a coherent plan. Social Security and Medicare/Medicaid are next. And it's all going on right under our noses. All the Libertarian bashing of Ms MacLean only legitimizes her book more.

    as thinking; should I recommend a book which is likely to alarm and disturb people about the current state of our political system more than they already are? However, this book is too well researched and too important not to be read. Nancy Maclean gave a lecture at the Lensic three weeks ago and I was alarmed enough to get her new book. The book concerns a character the name of whom most people have never heard, James Buchanan. He began his career at the University of Virginia in the 1950’s as head of the economics department and became politically involved in his states efforts to stop implementation of Brown vs. Board of education in 1955. Here the terms “School Choice” and “School Vouchers” were first used to try to convert Virginia’s public education system to a private system. Eventually Virginia’s and Buchanan’s efforts to destroy public education were thwarted by the federal judiciary. The effort radicalized Buchanan and led him on a lifelong quest to convert America to the causes of economic freedom for the wealthy, the “makers” and libertarianism. The book tells the story of how Buchanan eventually allied himself to the Koch Brother’s millions at George Mason University in Virginia to establish the intellectual backbone and Cadre to implement Koch’s ideas. As Lenin realized the importance of establishing an ideologically pure and dedicated cadre of zealots in the Russian revolution, so the Koch Brothers and Buchanan came to the same conclusion. So out of George Mason economics department came the foot soldiers to man the many Koch think tanks such as the Heritage Foundation, Americans for Prosperity, The Cato Institute, Freedom Works, ALEC, the Reason Foundation and then into the Republican party. Out of the GMU law center, the Mercatus Center, came ideologically pure libertarian recruits to The Koch’s Federalist Society from where they are now being appointed in unprecedented numbers to the Federal bench. What this book makes you realize is the unprecedented scale, the long range over decades, step by step plan, the ideological determination and the billions of dollars from one family to implement what is in essence an oligarchy of the super-rich. Both Buchanan and Koch realized that their plan could not be implemented through public support. Rather it had to be implemented by subterfuge, by slowly changing the rules of the game, changing the courts, changing who could vote. In the last year, being distracted by a reality show carnival barker, mostly below media scrutiny, we have seen ideas being implemented that are shown in the book as having been conceived many decades ago by Buchanan: efforts to privatize social security and Medicare, evisceration of environmental, medical insurance and financial regulations, appointment of right-wing ideologues as judges, right-to-work union busting, hollowing out of key federal bureaucracies, privatization of public functions, tax cuts for the rich and corporations, voter suppression. As MacLean says “The United States is now at one of those historic forks in the road whose outcome will prove as fateful as those of the 1860s, the 1930s and the 1960s. To value liberty for the wealthy minority above all else and enshrine it in the nation’s governing rules, as Calhoun and Buchanan both called for and the Koch network is achieving, play by play, is to consent to an oligarchy in all but the outer husk of representative form”. We are truly at a dangerous junction and moment. This is essential reading for all concerned. JACK
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    5.0 out of 5 starsA very well-researched book by a famous historian. The ...
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    A very well-researched book by a famous historian. The thesis is clear from the title and the documentation and support very cogent.
    Nancy MacLean really knows her stuff and I look forward to more insights as she prepares them. Our country really is in danger. If more people would take the time to read this, then the real citizens would take back the country from the plutocrats that are said to represent us.

    MacLean carefully explains the stages of growth for the movement to hijack our representative democracy. In person, she warns us of the real possibility of a new Constitutional Convention to seal the deal that many fanatics and even many conservatives support. Those populists that thrive on hostility also lose under the institutionalization of limited government participation. A world of survival of the richest.


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    Jack Rakove reviews Democracy in Chains

    ...Democracy in Chains is primarily a trimmed-down intellectual and political biography of James Buchanan, the Nobel Prize-winning economist and a principal founder of public choice theory, which involves the systematic application of modes of economic analysis to political decision-making....

    ...Wherever he went, Buchanan attracted numerous students with a libertarian, market-oriented bent. Collectively their work established public choice as a serious school of political economy that everyone needs to reckon with one way or another. But in MacLean’s larger story, the critical moment came in the mid-1990s when Buchanan formed a working alliance with Charles Koch, who appears here as the ruthless, manipulative, domineering éminence grise of the radical right. In her account, Buchanan finally provided Koch with the fully articulated ideology he needed to rationalize his own political preferences.

    Once MacLean forges the Koch-Buchanan connection, Democracy in Chains begins to read more like Ramparts-style journalism than academic history. The great goal of Koch’s movement would involve curtailing the public regulation of economic activity—or more specifically, capitalism itself—at every level of governance. Its ultimate objective, some of us suspect, is to secure the adoption of a balanced budget amendment to the US constitution, a policy-oriented renunciation of authority that would cripple the capability of the federal government to pursue the general welfare of the American people.

    MacLean’s journalistic turn gives her book an admirable polemical vigor that makes it fun to read—especially for anyone who has never read Ayn Rand and is free from libertarian leanings or radical-right credentials. But as a serious intellectual history of public choice ideas or (more to the point) of Buchanan’s own substantial oeuvre, Democracy in Chains is disappointing....

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    The books listed below tell the story of the rise of the American corporate owned and supported right wing and libertarianism in America. Republicans are run by big money today, Trump is a bit of an aberration in this environment as he could with his oddball economic policies actually eventually hurt dark money and corporate control. Of course it is doubtful he has any long term idea of what he is doing as all his business failures show.


    http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27833494-dark-money

    https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/...lyover-country

    https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/...nvisible-hands


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    "By 2011, the extremist upstarts had formed a powerful clique within the party's leadership and appeared itching to challenge Boehner's authority. Many owed more to the Kochs and other radical rich backers than they did to the party. The White House was under the misimpression that stolid business forces within the Republican Party would see the threat to the economy and force the radicals back from the edge. But while more traditional business interests, as represented by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, took this stance, the right flank of the donor base was urging the Young Guns on to a showdown. In The Wall Street Journal, Stanley Druckenmiller, a billionaire hedge fund manager, described government default as less catastrophic than 'if we don't solve the real problems,' by which he meant government spending. And Charles Koch made clear in a March 2011 op-ed piece in The Wall Street journal that he regarded any raise of the debt ceiling as simply a way to "delay tough decisions."

    Pushing the Young Guns forward toward the financial cliff was Americans for Prosperity, the Kochs' political arm. Some forty other Tea Party and anti tax groups also clamored for all out war. Among the most vociferous was the Club for Growth, a small, single-minded, Wall Street-founded group powerful for one reason: it had the cash to mount primary challenges against Republicans who didn't hew to its uncompromising line. The club had developed the use of fratricide as a tactic to keep officeholders in line after becoming frustrated that many (366) candidates it backed became more moderate in office. It discovered that all it had to do was threaten a primary challenge, and "they start wetting their pants," one founder joked. Its top finders included many in the Koch network, including the hedge fund managers Robert Mercer and Paul Singer and the private equity tycoon John Childs." page 356
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    It’s little known? Swing and a miss. You must not have been on the planet long.

    Americans for Prosperity is a little-known, billionaire-funded organization”
    I am tired of everyone fighting with each other. This is all by design.

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    Quote Originally Posted by midcan5 View Post
    The books listed below tell the story of the rise of the American corporate owned and supported right wing and libertarianism in America. Republicans are run by big money today, Trump is a bit of an aberration in this environment as he could with his oddball economic policies actually eventually hurt dark money and corporate control. Of course it is doubtful he has any long term idea of what he is doing as all his business failures show.


    http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27833494-dark-money

    https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/...lyover-country

    https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/...nvisible-hands


    Quote from 'Dark Money'


    "By 2011, the extremist upstarts had formed a powerful clique within the party's leadership and appeared itching to challenge Boehner's authority. Many owed more to the Kochs and other radical rich backers than they did to the party. The White House was under the misimpression that stolid business forces within the Republican Party would see the threat to the economy and force the radicals back from the edge. But while more traditional business interests, as represented by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, took this stance, the right flank of the donor base was urging the Young Guns on to a showdown. In The Wall Street Journal, Stanley Druckenmiller, a billionaire hedge fund manager, described government default as less catastrophic than 'if we don't solve the real problems,' by which he meant government spending. And Charles Koch made clear in a March 2011 op-ed piece in The Wall Street journal that he regarded any raise of the debt ceiling as simply a way to "delay tough decisions."

    Pushing the Young Guns forward toward the financial cliff was Americans for Prosperity, the Kochs' political arm. Some forty other Tea Party and anti tax groups also clamored for all out war. Among the most vociferous was the Club for Growth, a small, single-minded, Wall Street-founded group powerful for one reason: it had the cash to mount primary challenges against Republicans who didn't hew to its uncompromising line. The club had developed the use of fratricide as a tactic to keep officeholders in line after becoming frustrated that many (366) candidates it backed became more moderate in office. It discovered that all it had to do was threaten a primary challenge, and "they start wetting their pants," one founder joked. Its top finders included many in the Koch network, including the hedge fund managers Robert Mercer and Paul Singer and the private equity tycoon John Childs." page 356

    Yea, we heard about Dark Money from jet57 who never read it either.


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    Yea, we heard about Dark Money from jet57 who never read it either.


    So, mid, if corporations own America, who sold it to them? Other than the government you so adore?
    Please, allow me to field that one. If corporations use their money and influence to be represented at the expense of the people's representation, that is being sold out.
    I know public lands that were supposed to be owned by everyone get leased to corporations, the land gets misused for private profit, ans even though it's only leased, it is considered as owned by a company. We sure don't have access to move on it freely. They will sometimes give the properties back to us early, if they don't want the responsibility for cleaning up excessive contamination and pollution. Then the cleanup falls to the taxpayers.
    And as for wanting examples of who, besides the government, has sold America out to the corporations? Who else can do it? Only America can sell American lands and resources. The government is the representative of America.
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    Quote Originally Posted by RadioGod View Post
    Please, allow me to field that one. If corporations use their money and influence to be represented at the expense of the people's representation, that is being sold out.
    I know public lands that were supposed to be owned by everyone get leased to corporations, the land gets misused for private profit, ans even though it's only leased, it is considered as owned by a company. We sure don't have access to move on it freely. They will sometimes give the properties back to us early, if they don't want the responsibility for cleaning up excessive contamination and pollution. Then the cleanup falls to the taxpayers.
    And as for wanting examples of who, besides the government, has sold America out to the corporations? Who else can do it? Only America can sell American lands and resources. The government is the representative of America.
    I would only say the government doesn't do a good job of representing the people.

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