It is essential reading for anybody interested in the future of democracy. Dark Money brilliantly illuminates a shady corner of US politics. Together, they have spent hundreds of millions of dollars influencing politicians and voters, and hijacking American democracy for their own ends. The Koch brothers being interviewed on MSNBCs Morning.
Led by libertarian industrialists the Koch brothers, they believe that taxes are a form of tyranny and that government oversight of business is an assault on freedom. Jane Mayer’s ‘Dark Money’ is an exhaustive study of the Koch brothers’ attempt to influence public opinion. Jane Mayer, Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right 3 likes Like Theodore Roosevelt, assailed the idea, declaring, No amount of charity in spending such fortunes can compensate in any way for the misconduct in acquiring them. The follow is an excerpt from Jane Mayer’s Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right, a finalist for the 2017 PEN/Jean Stein Book Award. How did this come about, and who were the driving forces behind it? In this powerful and meticulously researched work of investigative journalism, New Yorker staff writer Jane Mayer exposes the network of billionaires trying to buy the US electoral system - and succeeding. Employee protections have been decimated, and state welfare is virtually non-existent, while hedge fund billionaires are grossly under-taxed and big businesses make astounding profits at the expense of the environment and of their workers.
The US is one of the largest democracies in the world - or is it? America is experiencing an age of profound economic inequality.
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