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Friday, April 24th, 2015

Kochs’ acquisition of the Republican Party nearly complete

Author:     Joan McCarter
Source:     Daily Kos
Publication Date:     Wed Apr 22, 2015 at 12:17 PM PDT.
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Stephan:   The transformation of American democracy to an open oligarchy is really quite amazing; I wonder how the Founders would feel about this development. A handful of uber-rich White men, led by the Koch brothers basically have bought the Republican Party, anointing the candidates they want in office. I wonder if those who register as Republicans fully comprehend what has happened. Just to be clear. The Democratic Party is also complicit in the sale of democracy to the ultra-rich. My general take away from all of this is: This is what happens when most of the citizens in the country don't vote. We have no one to blame but ourselves and I, for one, have had enough.
Credit: Fox News Radio

Credit: Fox News Radio

The Koch brothers’ takeover of the Republican Party is very nearly complete, and if they have their way, it will be by the end of 2016. They’ve anointed the five presidential candidates that are their finalists and they’ve got their plan in place for getting one of them elected, along with a Republican Senate. Politico got the documents and the interviews with the people who know.

The documents detail plans to beef up the network’s state-of-the-art data system, and pay hundreds of staff embedded in local communities across the country in preparation for get-out-the-vote efforts that are unprecedented from a third-party group.The plan comes with a $125 million 2015 budget for Americans for Prosperity, the most robust arm in the network of small-government advocacy groups helmed by the billionaire industrialist brothers Charles and David Koch. That’s the most the group has ever spent in a non-election year and the documents call the plan “beyond the biggest, boldest, broadest effort AFP has ever undertaken.” It calls for the creation of new chapters in Alabama, Idaho, North Dakota […]

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2 Comments

  1. steve hovland on Friday, April 24, 2015 at 6:15 am

    Go to NetFlix and watch “Park Avenue.” This history of how the rich bought the government.

  2. Gayl Woityra on Friday, April 24, 2015 at 6:35 am

    Stephen, you say “I have had enough” Me, too. But WHAT can we do about it?
    I have voted in every election my entire life (now 82). Given that both parties are “bought” who is capable of making any changes?