They put a shit ton of money into state races, too. Their plan was to get enough state legislatures in their pocket to call a constitutional convention and rewrite the US as an anarcho-capitalist state.
YSK: Two oil brothers, Charles Koch and David Koch, attempted to purchase the entire United States Congress
Submitted 4 weeks ago by dwazoup@lemm.ee to youshouldknow@lemmy.world
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/27/us/politics/kochs-plan-to-spend-900-million-on-2016-campaign.html
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baronvonj@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
njm1314@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Seems like they found a way to do that without having to do the Constitutional Convention.
scarabic@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Shyeah. They tried to overthrow democracy by due process? Rubes!
aviationeast@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
That sounds like treason to me.
WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
When you’re a billionaire they let you do it!
FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 weeks ago
Lets not give stateless capitalists the label “anarcho” that they try to claim.
Anarchism is the abolishing of systems of domination. You cannot be capitalist and be anarchist. It’s an inherent contradiction. At it’s most basic, anarchism is the abolishment of the state and capitalism. That’s why it’s often called “Libertarian Socialism”.
Doom@ttrpg.network 4 weeks ago
they want slavery that’s what they want.
anarchy to them means no legislation to stop what they want, you see the attacks on institutions and regulations all the time. It seems like our representatives hate the FDA and the EPA, wonder why
bradorsomething@ttrpg.network 4 weeks ago
I believe that was a stretch goal… the common story has always been that they wanted to take over redistricting after the census, which they really did knock out of the park, catching dems flat-footed.
FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
And it worked.
We don’t actually have a democracy, y’all.
jagged_circle@feddit.nl 4 weeks ago
We didn’t before them.
FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
That’s true.
Even the original Constitution only allowed voting for landowning white men, despite the lofty rhetoric. We are not and have never been a democracy.
Pistcow@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
I wonder what their security is like?
dwazoup@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
Tight. Very tight. One man once managed to interviewed one of the brothers.
They tried to ruin his life.
At the congressional swearing in ceremony for the Tea Party wave, I saw David Koch leaving the building and got a short interview. Every other political interview Koch ever gave was carefully screened. This one wasn’t.
x.com/lhfang/status/1164942632599953409
This interview apparently angered him. Shortly after they hired private investigators & operatives and I got harassed for over a year. An old high school media account got hacked, they hosted a website calling me a liar, edited my Wiki, a Koch blogger smeared me almost every day.
Yawweee877h444@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Yikes. Listening to him talk, and his security guy or whoever that was, leaves a really sickening feeling in my gut. They come across as psychopaths for some reason. It’s that cheap charisma that feels so off-putting. I worry what those types of billionaires do in private that will never reach the light of day. Epstien Island type stuff we’ll never know about.
robolemmy@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
One of them it’s dead, so his security is perfect. I’m hoping the other one ups his security game real soon now (due to natural causes, obviously).
mlg@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
If it makes you happy, the constitution was created to prevent this exact scenario, which is why everything in the US is an oligopoly and not an outright monopoly that can buyout the entire government. Stuff like US Steel, Standard Oil, and the original JP Morgan has never truly been eclipsed in sheer power in the modern US.
Even with collusion, deals still fall through and billionaires fight each other because they all want to be king.
So uh, woopdeedoo I guess
Krackalot@discuss.tchncs.de 4 weeks ago
LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
LOL interesting point.
EtnaAtsume@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Somewhat depressingly they bought my alma mater and gutted a lot of its humanities programs…luckily (for me) I was well graduated by then.
VirgilMastercard@reddthat.com 4 weeks ago
Kock by name, cock by nature
Ledericas@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
in the initial part of the campaign run, they were planning 600million from the start.
jagged_circle@feddit.nl 4 weeks ago
Read Dark Money. Excellent book.
nulluser@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
nothingcorporate@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Thank you! Nyt posts without archive links make baby Jesus cry.
LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Funny about dodging paywalls is that nobody condemns using content without paying the creators unless AI does it.
NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
It’s the Koch’s. If you want a somewhat happy ending, David is dead now, at least.
TheFriar@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
The kochs have been the actual boogeymen of American politics for a long time. They’re basically what the right always fear soros is, but for racist, imperialist, corporatist shit. They basically responsible for citizens united.
BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk 4 weeks ago
Jayne Mayer’s Dark Money should be a compulsory read.
Beldarofremulak@discuss.online 4 weeks ago
Died a happy wealthy man too
andros_rex@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Like fucking Kissinger.
The evil thrive and linger.