With those dudes way ahead, along with their increasingly unfair advantages, along with their absolutist's ruthlessness to drive this thing home. Our healthy Democracy's future demands an invigorated, enlightened, and engaged electorate like never before.
We Democrats and our Party of Complacency continue avoiding this evidence at our own peril. Of course, I'm easy to dismiss, who am I but a bystander? That's why I'm sharing all those articles and such. Because they clearly add up - and they rationally explain why I live with this increasing sense of terror towards our future and what's happening in my own country. Here I will be reposting, with permission, Theda Skocpol's Scholars Strategy Network's summary of the Koch Network and I encourage you to check out their website.
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Making Sense of the Koch Network
Theda Skocpol, Harvard University, www.scholarsstrategynetwork.orgIn recent years, two multibillionaire brothers, David and Charles Koch, have become major players on the political right, inspiring journalists and public interest researchers to comb through publicly recorded donations to depict a vast Koch network – as, for example, in the widely distributed “Maze of Money” chart created by OpenSecrets for the 2012 election cycle. In the current legal environment donations are often secret, so this approach necessarily misses money flows. Ironically, it also includes too many groups, ranging from longstanding conservative giants that get modest Koch donations to short-term fronts set up to write checks for attack ads.
An Evolving Political Strategy
