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(via The 'No Labels' agenda is more disturbing than you know - Raw Story - Celebrating 19 Years of Independent Journalism)
More on the No Labels super pac funded by dark money. Elitist disruptors who are trying to manipulate voters and guarantee the Republicans a victory in 2024.
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Harlan Crow is more than Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’s secret patron—he’s also deeply intertwined with the shadowy world of Republican dark money. In fact, Crow personally took part in the creation of the post-Citizens United dark money system and secretly helped bankroll some of the new groups.
SAME SHIT, DIFFERENT DAY.
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Happy day of birth to my good pal @startoonz / @ms-starr We're both 19 now and even closer than ever to paying our taxes
The #RapeOfAmerica is being perpetrated by the @GOP at the behest of #darkmoney, the #Corporatocracy, #warprofiteers, #Russia and crazed #Evangelicals who pray for the #Rapture. I never dreamed I’d live to be an extra in the most #dystopian documentary ever imagined,
— RC deWinter @RCdeWinter - May 3, 2018
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on deck to {finally} read this week: dark money, Jane Mayer; like a political thriller—except it’s non-fiction #reader #books #politics #liberal #janemayer #darkmoney #wednesday #coffee #carsandcoffee #bookstagram #bookshelf #mylibrary #recommend #nytbestseller (at Starbucks)
Charles and David Koch are the most striking example of extraordinarily wealthy Americans who have had an outsized impact on the politics of the last forty years—and whose impact is reaching a new peak right now. They followed in the footsteps of their father Fred, who in the 1950s was one of the founding members, along with candy manufacturer Robert Welch, of the John Birch Society. Nothing illustrates what has happened to American politics in my lifetime in more striking fashion than this. The ideas of the John Birch Society, a group of fanatically anti-government lunatics who in the 1950s identified Dwight D. Eisenhower as a member of the international Communist conspiracy, are now the single most influential set of ideas in American political life. Their main tenets are an unlimited faith in free enterprise and a conviction that government attempts to moderate the negative impacts of capitalism are simply a power grab designed to establish dictatorship. And because of the success of their political movement, their fortunes have grown by orders of magnitude over the last few decades.
Dark Money and the new American politics
Last weekend I finished Dark Money by Jane Mayer, which appeared last year. It was marketed, largely, as a history of the involvemen...
Now I have rarely been impressed by any of the ideas coming out of the new Right during the last few decades, but like many liberal Democrats, I suspect, I have assumed that conservative intellectuals had honestly come by their ideas. I am not suggesting now that they have lied about them, but Mayer leaves no doubt that the entire new right wing intellectual establishment was created from the ground up by the handful of major benefactors listed above. Both the American Enterprise Institute and the Heritage Foundation—the two centers of conservative “thought” in Washington—were originally funded largely by Richard Mellon Scaife. The Bradley and Olin Foundations were also powers behind the Heritage Foundation, and the Kochs have been involved as well. I have always thought of the Cato Institute as a nest of principled libertarians—partly because it tends to oppose foreign interventions—but it turns out to have been started by Charles Koch. Charles Murray was an unknown writer before the Olin foundation adopted him and subsidized his first book, Losing Ground, arguing that social programs were hurting the poor. (Spoiled, perhaps, by success, Murray went a bridge too far when he and Richard Herrnstein argued in The Bell Curve that black people were intellectually inferior to whites.) And I was amazed to learn from Mayer that the Bradley foundation gives four annual awards of $250,000 each to leading conservative journalists, activists, and intellectuals. Winners have included George Will, Charles Krauthammer, Thomas Sowell, Ward Connerly, Heather MacDonald, Shelby Steele, Victor Davis Hanson, John Bolton, William Kristol, Paul Gigot, Michael Barone, Jeb Bush, Harvey Mansfield, Edwin Meese, Roger Ailes of Fox News, General John Keane, and Charles Murray.
