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Kochland: The Secret History of Koch Industries and Corporate Power in America
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“‘I am totally convinced that probably seventy percent to seventy-five percent of our government is being run by Satan worshipers,� [Maria] Brady said. ‘That’s what’s wrong with this country.’� (p. 630).
Little Maria Moron of Fantasyland, USA, and her scholarly wisdom, provide the perfect illustrative example of the disease afflicting this unraveling Republic.
Leonard painstakingly chronicles the history of the Koch brothers and their rising empire, as well as reveals the grand scheme of Koch Industries (with Charles as the true Brainiac) as it seeks a Libertarian paradise for vampiric capitalism, while brainwashing the gullible through its numerous nonprofits, political activist groups like Americans for Prosperity, Super PACs, Fox News grotesques like Glenn Beck, puppet politicians, and the incredibly destructive verdict of Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission to create those Elysian Fields filled with bulging sacks of untaxed cash. The fact that the Tea Party movement (and the House Freedom Caucus) was bankrolled by the Kochs is no surprise to anyone anymore, unless the arrogant ignorant choose to ignore it as easily as they do the Constitution and the New Testament. We live in a plutocracy, one that—era after era—seems to favor the filthy-rich and their corporations over all else. The lies are shrink-wrapped and packaged to the demographics that crave them, those seeking delusional halcyon yesteryears. Trump offered bread and circuses to the masses for huge tax breaks for him and his coterie, and has undertaken a systematic dismantling of environmental protections for our great polluters backed by the idiotic denial of the hard science addressing global warming and its future ramifications. Clean coal! Chinese ploys! Socialism!
The facts that Charles Koch rides in armored convoys manned with armed guards and his Wichita HQ is now a fortress ringed by a huge earthen berm are interesting and also illustrative of the super-rich living in the Land of Gun Nuts and Truck Bombs. They are fearful, but their power is deeply rooted within the entire political and governing system. I wonder if we can ever break the tentacled stranglehold of Democracy in chains. The hourglass drains . . .
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Little Maria Moron of Fantasyland, USA, and her scholarly wisdom, provide the perfect illustrative example of the disease afflicting this unraveling Republic.
Leonard painstakingly chronicles the history of the Koch brothers and their rising empire, as well as reveals the grand scheme of Koch Industries (with Charles as the true Brainiac) as it seeks a Libertarian paradise for vampiric capitalism, while brainwashing the gullible through its numerous nonprofits, political activist groups like Americans for Prosperity, Super PACs, Fox News grotesques like Glenn Beck, puppet politicians, and the incredibly destructive verdict of Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission to create those Elysian Fields filled with bulging sacks of untaxed cash. The fact that the Tea Party movement (and the House Freedom Caucus) was bankrolled by the Kochs is no surprise to anyone anymore, unless the arrogant ignorant choose to ignore it as easily as they do the Constitution and the New Testament. We live in a plutocracy, one that—era after era—seems to favor the filthy-rich and their corporations over all else. The lies are shrink-wrapped and packaged to the demographics that crave them, those seeking delusional halcyon yesteryears. Trump offered bread and circuses to the masses for huge tax breaks for him and his coterie, and has undertaken a systematic dismantling of environmental protections for our great polluters backed by the idiotic denial of the hard science addressing global warming and its future ramifications. Clean coal! Chinese ploys! Socialism!
The facts that Charles Koch rides in armored convoys manned with armed guards and his Wichita HQ is now a fortress ringed by a huge earthen berm are interesting and also illustrative of the super-rich living in the Land of Gun Nuts and Truck Bombs. They are fearful, but their power is deeply rooted within the entire political and governing system. I wonder if we can ever break the tentacled stranglehold of Democracy in chains. The hourglass drains . . .
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