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Saturday, June 14th, 2014

The Ayn-Rand Loving Billionaires and Vast Right-Wing Machine Behind David Brat

Author:     THOM HARTMANN
Source:     AlterNet (U.S.)
Publication Date:     11-Jun-14
 Link: The Ayn-Rand Loving Billionaires and Vast Right-Wing Machine Behind David Brat
Stephan:   Here is one of the most insidious projects of the Corporatist Theocratic Right. These people are very serious about turning us into a fascist state and they will spend whatever it takes. They can do this, spend this money, because they have already rigged the tax system through their minions in the Congress. Men and women who put staying in their jobs ahead of the wellbeing of America. This is part of their long game, and the universities are such easy pickings, as this reports spells out. It is a trend almost completely ignored by corporate media. What I find also notable is that anyone over 19 takes Ayn Rand seriously. I remember reading Atlas Shrugged at 18. It was new then, very compelling, and seemed amazingly sensible. By 25 I knew it was nonsense. I think only people driven by greed can believe it much past that age.

Dark money is flowing like water in Washington.

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, who has always been considered one of the more Conservative members of the House, lost in a primary to upstart Tea Party challenger David Brat.

Brat, an economics college professor, was vastly outraised by Cantor, and most polls leading up to the primary showed Cantor with a very comfortable lead.

In the immediate aftermath of last night’s shocker in Virginia, analysts have been saying Brat’s victory was just a fluke.

They couldn’t be more wrong.

Dave Brat’s victory wasn’t just a fluke, and he isn’t just some Tea Partying economics college professor from Virginia.

Both he and his victory have dark money written all over them.

Back in 2008 during America’s financial collapse, BB&T Bank was one of the many big banks that crashed. In order to stay afloat, that bank took a $3.1 billion bailout from the Bush administration.

At the helm of the bank at that time was John Allison, an Ayn Rand-loving CEO.

According to The Street, during his time as CEO of BB&T, Allison regularly used the BB&T Charitable Foundation, ‘to provide grants to schools that agree to create courses on capitalism that feature the study of “Atlas […]

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