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How Kochs took over Trump admin via Pence, Mulvaney, Pompeo, Pruitt, McGahn, Short (Original Post)
dixiegrrrrl
Aug 2017
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Koch Bros are on record, you can look it up, they want ALL your money, ALL of it.
Eliot Rosewater
Aug 2017
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Eliot Rosewater
(31,131 posts)1. Koch Bros are on record, you can look it up, they want ALL your money, ALL of it.
Gabi Hayes
(28,795 posts)2. You got it:
https://www.kirkusreviews.com/features/nancy-maclean/
At the center of MacLeans book is Nobel Prize-winning economist James McGill Buchanan, who died in 2013 at age 93. Largely bankrolled by Charles Koch and other deep-pocketed misanthropic libertarians throughout most of his career from the mid-1950s onward, Buchanan latched onto public choice theory to become its leading promoter. Buchanan assumed self-interest primarilymotivated politicians, bureaucrats, union organizers, civil rights activists, and others, MacLean says. He cast public service in a deeply cynical light and denigrated the idea of we the people and the common good. Where the common good leads, Buchanan thought, is to an out-of-control government that destroys individual liberty.
The movements ultimate goal is capitalism free from government interference, and a government essentially stripped to maintaining law and order and national defense. Its adherents want to privatize most public services, especially public schools and Social Security. They have adopted the language of conservatism, and have successfully hijacked the Republican Party in the process, but they are not conservative in the traditional sense. Most people would not support the movements extreme libertarian vision if its adherents didnt couch it in appeals to a benign personal freedom.
The final prescription of Buchanans career was constitutional revolutiona rewriting of the rulebook to unleash free-market fundamentalism and prevent majorities of voters from ever being able to effect change. This revolution would turn the Constitutions checks and balances into locks and bolts, and can be heard in present-day calls by Republican governors and legislators for a convention of the states to amend the Constitution.
At the center of MacLeans book is Nobel Prize-winning economist James McGill Buchanan, who died in 2013 at age 93. Largely bankrolled by Charles Koch and other deep-pocketed misanthropic libertarians throughout most of his career from the mid-1950s onward, Buchanan latched onto public choice theory to become its leading promoter. Buchanan assumed self-interest primarilymotivated politicians, bureaucrats, union organizers, civil rights activists, and others, MacLean says. He cast public service in a deeply cynical light and denigrated the idea of we the people and the common good. Where the common good leads, Buchanan thought, is to an out-of-control government that destroys individual liberty.
The movements ultimate goal is capitalism free from government interference, and a government essentially stripped to maintaining law and order and national defense. Its adherents want to privatize most public services, especially public schools and Social Security. They have adopted the language of conservatism, and have successfully hijacked the Republican Party in the process, but they are not conservative in the traditional sense. Most people would not support the movements extreme libertarian vision if its adherents didnt couch it in appeals to a benign personal freedom.
The final prescription of Buchanans career was constitutional revolutiona rewriting of the rulebook to unleash free-market fundamentalism and prevent majorities of voters from ever being able to effect change. This revolution would turn the Constitutions checks and balances into locks and bolts, and can be heard in present-day calls by Republican governors and legislators for a convention of the states to amend the Constitution.
oasis
(49,472 posts)3. K and R