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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsKoch/Mercer-Funded Libertarians Have Taken Over the GOP
The traditional conservative party has been overrun with Koch/Mercer funded libertarians. They have an agenda that has nothing to do with democracy - and have made huge inroads creating an oligarchy in its place. They don't negotiate and they take no prisoners, and more than anything, they don't like to share--money and resources. The lives of the majority of Americans are inconsequential in the face of their agenda--unfettered control of our country. They are much more of a threat to our safety and well-being than middle-eastern terrorists. Only a united, large and sustained opposition will save us.
ExciteBike66
(2,336 posts)These new guys seem to have all of the traditional Republican objectives in mind!
KG
(28,751 posts)Initech
(100,063 posts)Eyeball_Kid
(7,430 posts)But with their mouthpieces in Trumpy and Bannon, something more insidious is at play: fascism.
This is no hyperbole, no joke. It only takes a small minority of support from the citizenry to pull off a fascist takeover. And we're getting close. We already have been invaded by Putin's fascism. He's placed Trumpy and his inner circle in the White House. It will get worse from here. There's a lot that Mercer and the Kochs have in common with Russian oligarchs and Putin.
And, oh, no one's talking about it. Do we ever wonder why?
Wwcd
(6,288 posts)They have funded both these parties because they just fucking despise democracy.
There legacy was to carry on the Party of their father, the John Birch Society.
UGH!!!