What do you get the billionaire who has everything? How about
the United States of America?
Charles and David Koch have announced that their political
network is planning to spend nearly a billion dollars on conservative
candidates for House and Senate seats and the presidency in 2016.
Thanks to their ideological soul mates on the Supreme Court,
the Koch’s can now lavish money on their chosen candidates through an immense
network of non-profit groups without, in many cases, having to identify donors.
Koch-approved Republicans will get writer’s cramps endorsing their checks.
Does this sound like democracy to you? Me neither. America
is quickly becoming an oligarchy where a small minority of elites determine who
goes to Washington. The system of checks and balances instituted by our
founders has clearly broken down, and voting has become an exercise in
futility.
It’s a shame. America began as a brilliant experiment in
democracy, but has been taken over by the insatiably greedy 1 percent whose
only allegiance is to the bottom line.
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