Love the scans of the audience, and the genuine interest Jane and James have in engaging them. I miss this sort of discourse and this level of investigation. Thank you for uploading!
The tax code is upside down. Tax should exactly be on capital gains, NOT on labor. Think of the enormous infrastructure that labor, business and government most of all put in place on the soil of this nation in order to allow the plutocrats to rise only to have them pay less than nothing back.
@@lilyfuzz1 I have not listened to enough speakers to judge. Perhaps my random selection was superficial. I am so bored with cliche attacks on Trump and inversion of blame and responsibility as a political tactic and inspiration to pseudo authors who would not have survived the literary disciplines of previous generations. Criminals writing books for a buck and calling it revelation. Amazing. The failure of the justice system extends into education and communication like vermin spreading putrefaction .
Jane Mayer is a remarkable, historic writer, the Atlantic is one of the very best publications of our modern time. 2022, we are under a grinding confluence of dark money & authoritarian personalities. Today is Midterm Election Day, Nov 8, 2022; may the universe ✨ assist us to balance against these forces and push them out in favor of personal freedom.
People elected a billionaire that is appointing other billionaires to fix the system that made them billionaires .... thats a special kind of stupid !!!
@BMB I am too. Especially with the stealthy "progress" of surveillance technology. Now our TVs are hooked to our iphones that go directly to big brother, the CIA and Homeland, ballooned to 17 agencies overnight, using the excuse of 9/11, and now there are over a million operatives. There is one operative for every 360 Americans, and we have to pay for it, while the corporations abuse it to stop anyone in their path, especially peace activists, minorities, and environmental activists. They are contrary to the corporocracy. It's as if invisible power, the power non-transparent, and that which we don't elect, has used Orwell's 1984 as a playbook. And they have taken over our democracy. But this is nothing new in our government.. At the turn of the 20th century, the 'proud fascists" as they called themselves then, were DOW, IBM, Ford Motors, Standard Oil, United Fruit Col, Sullivan and Cromwell, Chase, Morgan, Stanley, the Harrimans, the Rockefellers and Bushes....They all funded money to support Hitler and help him rise to power. They tried to assassinate FDR during his presidency on 5 different occasions. When their attempts failed to stop his social programs, they tried a coup, with 5000 men, but it was exposed. And so they then turned to Hitler to start a war in Europe, in order to stop FDR's programs and regulations here. Those companies today are in charge of the NSC, the CIA, and Homeland. They control our Congress. They are the Ministry of Truth.. And yes, that is very scary, especially when FDR promised (had he lived) to have them tried in Nuremberg. But FDR died mysteriously before the war ended, and the Harrimans took over the democratic party. And the fascist Dulles Brothers of Sullivan and Cromwell moved into the State Dept, the CIA and NSC, and manipulated Truman like a toy puppet. And they've been steadily fascisizing our country ever since. And it's even more scary how so many people-=even on progressive sites, fall for the likes of Trump, or Clinton, and are pumped with racial hatred. It's just like Nazi Germany, and the new targets are brown people in America. Ors the poor or disabled. It's horrifically disappointing and frightening and wrong. I'm afraid, as then, a crash is around the corner, and a world war is in the offing. But Americans are so ignorant of what that entails, and we will deeply regret it once it happens.
@@grantmarcus5675 "One "operative" for every 360 Americans". They are the American Stasi. And if you are unfortunate enough to gain their attention you will see this ratio is true by the surveillance you are under. In 2010 it was revealed that Walmart was working with DHS by allowing? their operatives to roam their stores. Now they are placed everywhere; libraries, your local grocery store, cruising the highways and roads. If you are listed and observed your location is phoned in. The car parked along side the road with a single occupant may well be a clown that is enabling this fascist regime. The moron we have for a president serves as a distraction for the goings on behind the curtain. It doesn't matter until it affects you personally. Something you are deprived of that before you took for granted; your vote, your health, your well being, your children's education, a roof over you head, your life. come on people put down the phone and look around.
Tons of great Our Revolution candidates running for office all over the country. Flip the senate. Keep congress blue and find out who is running for local office who gets it and who have been vetted by Our Revolution. (That's what I did. I don't work or volunteer for them but I'm awfully glad for them.)
It is now March 2020, and I can see where we are getting closer and closer to that movement becoming a reality. Hopefully, nobody will lose their courage and become too comfortably complacent.
I know, Tee, this is so out of control. It's government of the people, by the people and for the people, not corporations. Just because there's a lot of money involved doesn't mean people should give up. It's the giving up that will give the rich more power. And having a president on their side to undo all that is good for the public should be brought to light. This "pandemic" bailout for the corporations is sickening and the anger should be towards that deceitful Trump for siding with corporations than the American worker right now. $1,200 stimulus check? What a farce. People's rents are $2,000 a month with no utilities. We're going to see more homeless than never before. But first come, first served the hedgefund managers and corporations are priority. Disgusting.
I think the key strategic 'leverage point' is the money, specifically the money system. We need to elect a Congress and President ethical enough to pass the NEED Act which would create a public for-care money system, stop banks from creating our money for profit and establish a monetary authority that would only be tasked with determining the amount of new money required each year to support public objectives determined by Congress, like healthcare, education, infrastructure and a citizen's dividend.
Jane Mayer is in a class all her own as a journalist. God bless her. I hope her next project is on the corporate media itself and its shameful railroading of Julian Assange. We need all the good journalism we can get.
I wonder what the subject of her next book could be, besides that, the precision of her English is excellent (what can not be said of all journalists who write books)
Not to mention having "drunk the Kool-Aid" that the subjects of her book have pushed out into the "body politic" -- whose results are on display in this line of questioning!
I'll just throw this in: a corporation is different from a sole proprietor or "company" in that it consists of a raft of special status granted by Government. It isn't automatic. Every libertarian who owns or manages a corporation must CHOOSE to organize the corporate form, choose officers, and apply with (request) this Government Partnership. A *TRUE* Libertarian would reject forming a corporation, for others and especially for themselves, on principle. On the other hand, that would leave them *personally liable* for all damages recovered by lawsuits, which would be "personal responsibility". *The key purpose of the corporate form is to shield founders and shareholders* - owners - from *most personal responsibility* except (maybe) to shareholders, including themselves. This form makes it possible for absent shareholders to exist, for the corporation to sell public shares. It frankly makes a lot of good things possible, such as taking more RISKS of failure in business, more RISKS of innovation, without exposing everything you own, such as your life savings and future earnings, to total loss. But that occurs BECAUSE of Government Assistance .. and tends to benefit Large corporations over Small Corporations, since the latter can't afford a raft of lawyers to defend legal cases in federal courts and to attack other corporations for patent violations, or to legally attack individuals who use a likeness of Donald Duck in a public kiddie park. Patents and Intellectual Property, preventing copying and competition, are, of course, another useful but problematic gift of Big Government. Yes, patents can help innovation .. or stifle innovation. Some companies have done Research & Dev on innovations they never intend to make, in order to block other competitors, or force competitors to pay royalties for ideas. A small child can charge $1.00 for lemonade, without (much) govt involvement, but she doesn't get govt assistance to shut down a competing lemonade stand. This point is mostly about libertarian hypocrisy, but there ARE useful purposes for patents, IP, and corporate law, just as there are useful purposes for govt regulations on doing business and useful purposes for govt assistance to consumers. Have you ever met a libertarian willing to discuss abolishing all corporate law and all corporate charters, and patent rights, the whole system, just to be principled?
Argh, The Powell Memo! Its a very short read but I've had little success in getting people to read it. They just can't be bothered, yet it was the blueprint for all Big Business's dastardly deeds.
@@forrestgossett Thanks, I'll have to check out The Crisis of Democracy as that one is new to me. There were efforts before the 70s of extremist business people like Joseph Coors in funding "The New Right (movement conservatives)" but it was not nearly as successful, or sophisticated as it would become after the Powell Memo.
Great discussion, and I have been meaning to check out this book for a long time. I have read Democracy in Chains by Nancy Mclean, which is about the Koch network, and that assembly line, which Mayer aptly calls that was set up with the far-right economic thinkers like Gordon Tullock, and particularly James M. Buchanan. I think it was published after this one. That book ties in very well to this one. The man who asked the question about education with school vouchers and stuff would be very interested in reading that book as Buchanan played a huge role in pushing voucher programs for education in the South around Brown v Board of Education (1954). The famous economist Milton Friedman played a role as well. The Chicago School of Economics first took over Republican politics, which Friedman was a part of with Reagan, and then the Virginia School (public choice theory economics was even more radical) took over more with the Koch influence. Privatizing education and things like voucher programs was one of the major focuses of Buchanan in his career. He founded the Virginia school of economics with Charles Koch and they took over George Mason University in Virginia as being the base to connect with Washington politics. One thing I would like to hear more of an opinion on from Mayer is in regards to race. A lot of the ideas behind the Koch economics have roots in the leading southern slaveholder John Calhoun's philosophy since they were so focused on finding a way for the minority to be able to defeat the will of the majority, and Brown v Board of Education was a decision that really galvanized the so called libertarian movement.
One thing Jane did not mention about climate change and the Koch Brothers. Talk about egregious - the Koch Brothers hated the topic of climate change and they wanted to take total control of the topic. The way they did this was to donate millions to Universities that had great departments about climate change. Virginia’s largest public university granted the conservative Charles Koch Foundation a say in the hiring and firing of professors in exchange for millions of dollars in donations, according to released documents. The release of donor agreements between George Mason University and the foundation follows years of denials by university administrators that Koch foundation donations inhibit academic freedom. The Charles Koch Foundation and the now-defunct Claude R. Lambe Foundation are member organizations of the Koch Family Foundations. Each year, the family's foundations contribute hundreds of thousands of dollars to academic institutions. According to the Charles G. Koch Foundation website, "the Foundation primarily supports research and higher education programs that analyze the impact of free societies, in particular how they advance the well-being of mankind."[1] According to IRS tax filing data compiled by Greenpeace, Charles Koch( Deceased) has given over $68 million to over 300 universities from 2005 to 2013.[2] The Center for Public Integrity calculated that the Kochs spent $19.3 million on 163 colleges and universities in 2013 alone. The majority of the Universities receiving the Koch money are on the east coast. There are 2 great universities in Texas that have a great Atmospheric Department : Texas Tech and Texas A&M and they do not money from the Koch Brothers.
Dear Jane Mayer! I’m almost in love with you, there is nothing more beautiful in this world than a smart woman. I’m certainly not the only one who feels that way. I’m glad that you exist and I’m looking forward to your next book.
The old saying rings true, money and power corrupts, absolutely, there’s a thin line between genius and insanity, influenced by ideology and family...sadly !!
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🟣🟣🟣 THX 4 having Jane Mayer on the show! "Dark Money" should be required reading in all History of the USA classes.‼‼‼
Look at the guy at 42:27 what he says is very telling. He is obviously a young libertarian who just came to the event to throw some doubt on Jane Mayer`s research. I am concerned about the strange fascination that some rather self-centered young men (with delusions about their grandeur/standing in the "wealth" hierarchy of this world and often a lack of empathy) have for libertarianism. Looking at the audience in the room, I see mostly grey hair. I wish more young people would read Jane Mayer`s work or a t least watch her talk. Her research is of essential importance! (The second young men who wants to "un-Koch" the infamous campus of George-Mason-University (a libertarian haven with lots of Koch money) gives me some hope. More of this, please! After all, those "dark money" donors are changing public opinion - that concerns us all (even outside the US). I just say: Climate Change! Young leftists/liberals/progressives have to take those "old dude" donors and "loony" libertarian guys more seriously. I recommend them to study the playbook of the Koch`s and their fellow travellers, emulate what is possible (the grassroot work, the "legwork" of people going from door to door and informing people). They should reveal the strategies and the intentions of the wealthy donors to as many people as possible. People have to be alerted, have to understand where their "opinion" e.g. of Climate Change "originates" from. Hard work, sure, but the attempt has to be made. Otherwise democracy is virtually dead. And the environment. And the wellfare state. So, recommend the book/audiobook and Jane Mayer`s interviews etc.!!!
You are correct , Living within boundaries will produce fairer and more ethical results , we all sense that we've moved outside of those boundaries that keep us , and now the flailing of chaotic and rampant greed ,is bringing forth a self destruction ,Historically and biblically , humans have been here before , Here we go again ,learning a lesson in HUMILITY , It is a true thing , That if we , humanity won't humble ourselves , then , God , the universe will humiliate us , for our own good ,,,, of course , This gives the natural world of creation ,a chance to recuperate , ani angela nz messenger AROHA NUI Endsoftheearth nz
The one lesson I've learned by watching this video is that if you go to the very extremes of the Political Spectrum - either Right or Left - the only people you will find are criminals.
@@xiaokourou Maybe so, but I didn't say corrupt, I said criminal. Believe it or not there is a difference between the two, although I'll grant you that there's not much of a difference. From what I've heard, from many commentators, politics in the US is run by big business.
There’s an easy solution, but it requires ruthlessness that these billionaires fear the most, but it’s their actions to prevent what they fear the most that causes what they fear to come about in one form or another....let’s hope it’s the more intelligent scientific democratic solution and path of peace! Great work of investigative journalism, thank you, Jane
I think what we need to do to defeat these ideas is for Democrats to do a better job of getting people out to vote. Despite having the majority they have to overcome all the gerrymandering, voter suppression, and a senate that gives disproportionate power to the Republican minority. Democrats also need to do a better job of putting aside their own differences. I think they are starting to try to unite themselves around their shared defense of Democracy and the Constitution, which the Republicans are set on destroying. Republicans since the 90s in particular got good at setting aside differences and uniting around Democrats as a common enemy. This was also when they started to get really big on the research of public opinion with things like focus groups, which Mayer brings up.
They will be held accountable for their actions. Everything is being brought to the surface. It will take time. Please be patient. God bless and much love and light.
The United States needs legislation, regulation and oversight to get dark money out of politics, government, and education. A huge problem is that at least 3 seats on the SCOTUS have been bought and filled with 3 right-wing extremist Judges. The network of dark money has expanded across the US and it is strong and deep.
Sadly every hard-right justice on the supreme court, which is currently 5 out of 9 are what I would call extremists that have been bought by big business, and Trump appointed 3. Chief Justice Roberts is on the fence of that. We have even seen how Clarence Thomas lives a lavish life because Billionaires keep funding it for him since he initially expressed a desire to resign and go make more money in the private sector around the year 2000 when it could have been a Democrat replacing him. Billionaires would not let that happen. The Koch machine is not just with economists, but also legal scholars that they can pack courts with, and get out as lawyers too.
Refer to Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse's speeches on the floor about the capture of the federal courts, The Federalist Society pipeline, capture of the SCOTUS.
Agreed, that this needs more attention. It is part of the Koch pipeline she talks about to get legal scholars trained and then put on the courts through the Federalist Society. The Kochs are a major donor along with other billionaires of the Federalst Society.
The “anonymous source” guy was such an obvious political operative plant, but like all libertarians he couldn’t help from tripping over his own claims.
Yeah, I think sourcing is a good thing to address, but he worded his question in such a typical right-wing gotcha way that it was clear what his motivations were. I think Mayer should have made it clear that anonymous sourcing is very common for scholars because people would rightfully be concerned of the backlash from the right if they had their name on record. People would lose their careers in right-wing politics if they spoke out negatively. On the record they would just have typical PR rehearsed talking points if they would even speak to her at all.
And to think 6 years later these exact same players, after having used their influence, money, think-tanks etc in a campaign to sow doubt about covid-19 mitigations, have succeeded in the midst of a pandemic that has killed millions, to get governments and societies to turn their back on public health measures and actively pursue mass infection is very dispiriting.
I guess she should know about "dark money". Her paternal great-great-grandfather was Emanuel Lehman, one of the founders of Lehman Brothers. Her maternal grandparents were Mary Fleming (Richardson) and Allan Nevins, a historian and John D. Rockefeller, Jr.'s authorized biographer, who wrote that, despite the Ludlow Massacre, Rockefeller and his fellow industrialists "...did nothing criminal."
It is now March of 2019 and I am looking back at this talk and how timely Ms Mayer’s book was. Unfortunately, it came a couple years too late. 📈📆📉😢 It seems that the one most important institution in which I wish it, rather than actual “Dark Money”, would have infiltrated is the Electoral College. 🙇♀️📖 Nonetheless, I applaud Jane as well as anyone and everyone who supported her efforts. Thank you so very much for lighting a candle 🙏🏻🕯 to finally shed a glimmer of light in the midst all of the darkness. Absolutely amazing work, research and passion. Again, thank you ever so much. ✌️💞
30 or 40 years ago, I thought that capital gains taxes were the worst evil, and horribly unfair. Now, after a lot of life and dishonest people, retired and disabled on only social security and a tiny amount from the VA, capital gains taxes sound very good to me...along with every progressive change possible... -weezi-💖🙏💜🙏🤠
5:38 - the real start of the first question ... intro is done, bald guy blabbles for a while and then finally asks a question ... Mayer is absolutely brilliant ! The bald guy is just annoying.
When neuroscience begins to factor in the pre-conscious survival instincts, in this case social dominance hierarchies, we might begin to know the enemy well enough to intervene more effectively in avoiding abuses of power. As it is, a ruthless, tiny minority will always concentrate power.
Neuroscience is something I bring up repeatedly when explaining what happened to the GOP. Grievance activates the same neural pathways as drug addictions do, shutting off critical thinking and Republican Operatives began tapping into it through the 1970s when they saw how successful George Wallace's 1968 campaign was. Then from the late 80s right wing media took off with the grievance model, and now you have such a large segment of the population that is so incredibly tribal and angry all the time at Democrats that they don't care about anything else politically other than harming their political opposition. There are also plenty of other propaganda techniques the right wing has mastered in their messaging over the decades where their base lives in an alternate reality now that can't be penetrated with facts or reasoning.
"Ideas have power." Yep. The American right-wing rhetorician Richard Weaver started preaching that idea to the conservatives way back in the 50s with his book, "Ideas Have Consequences." Unfortunately, right-wing ideas are wrong, in general--but they still have consequences, and we're seeing those consequences in the decimation of America over the past forty years.
I like their foundation thinking. Less govt, and need a check for moderation. They want immigration unchecked for cheap labor. I do not like that at all. We need to elect different people in congress to create a legal immigration system.
Their thinking does not involve 'moderation'. They don't want any checks and balances. They also sacrificed libertarian principles for cheap labor with immigrants and went hard right on anti-immigration instead as it is a litmus test in the Republican Party now. Much of the jobs that have been lost for blue collar America is due to outsourcing to foreign countries where labor is much cheaper with worse conditions. After the 2012 election, which Mayer discusses the Republican Party also tried to be more inclusive and less nasty as their white base was shrinking, but the extremists wouldn't let them and they quickly went in the opposite direction. Republicans don't actually want a better immigration system. They just want the public to keep thinking it is broken, and that Democrats are responsible as Republicans need to keep things broken so they can keep that storyline going. Only the Dems actually want to 'fix' immigration.
there is a little old educated lady who comes to many of these readings and always gets in line first..so I say hey, lady..share..plenty of people will ask your same question.
Good review - I would like to see about all the Foundations and the amount of money they are bringing in. The people here you are talking about worked to get where they are at. I would like to learn more about all of the Foundations in the U.S. that I have heard are profitable due to donations. I would like to hear more about this. I like to have a good foundation about all the players in the field so I can base my opinion that way. It appears this is biased to the right, I want to hear the left so I can form my own opinion. I do not like to be fed a one-sided story and expected to believe what I am being told.
Very good discussion, so my take on this is as follows; When one puts money and self interest before Gods best interest then your subject to corruption, and what is Gods best interest, it’s not humans, it’s earths biosphere which supports all life...humans will ultimately destroy himself by putting a price tag on everything especially himself... so mans ego, motives, ignorance, and priorities that will lead us down dark roads towards his sad demise...Nature like god does not discriminate, G.E.T.S...!!!!
It always perks my ears when ppl speak for God. How do u know what God's interest is? Anything u think of would be centered around ur human disposition at the time of thought and we know that can change. Then u equate nature as being like God if so I have more of a basis for claiming myself God: let us make man in our own image...to have Dominion (over the earth and every living thing in it).
Ricardo SCloud your as ridiculous as your religious beliefs, religion is about controlling humans and exploiting natural resources and developing...the Bible was written by humans not god, so all your so justifications that we can abuse this planet resources and kill all life because you wrongly believe that God made this earth for us when we humans have only been around for a short time....is arrogant, egotistical and brainwashed....
Yup, it has played a large role. There have been other scholars who have focused on that aspect more. Nicole Hemmer's books Messengers of the Right, and Partisans are 2 that you may be interested in checking out. Since Rush Limbaugh proved to be such a hit so quickly beginning in the late 80s the right wing big money groups put a lot of funding into the right wing media that is similar in style.
- Koch brothers story is hillarious , just for example Charles Koch got Defender of Justice award from the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers , LOL
I liked the retired lobbyist. I thought his questions were relevant, if unexpected. Why did the lady look so irritated, like she thought she was being played?
We need young people to get interested more in civics as well as to make sure they also have the skills, and desire to filter out all the propaganda. The right wing has been working hard to try to recruit young people into their movement through groups like Turning Point USA, although it is all a bunch of sophists engaging in grievance and theater to garner interests. Laziness and grievance like the right-wing is about is hard to compete with.
Still the line is that they are 'brilliant' - yet most of us could put two and two together and see that climate change was indeed a thing long ago. Really, it's that money talks, simple as. And now humanity has lost precious years tackling this problem as Americans have been churning out carbon emissions long after they could have worked out effective solutions. We, outside the US, are doing what we can....
Well, libertarians in the US actually went with conservatives. It is a litmus test in Republican politics to double down on law and order, where law and order disproportionately targets the poor, and particularly African Americans, and Immigrants, while the capitalist class are not held accountable for crimes. Reagan really began that transformation with the Republican Party. It is one of those compromises Libertarians made that Mayer discusses. It doesn't matter what Republican voting Libertarians really think about crime outside of this.
great revelations of very partial truths. nyt style. trump may have been the only candidate who didn't ask 'the koch brothers' for money, why did he appoint b. devos, et cetera, et cetera... politics everywhere are doomed to fail.
He got money from the Mercer family donator circle, Fulan Gong and Russia+Turkey+Saudi. The Mercers have pretty much merged back with the Koch network.
Love the scans of the audience, and the genuine interest Jane and James have in engaging them. I miss this sort of discourse and this level of investigation. Thank you for uploading!
this book needs to be required reading in history classes across america
It would help if our young people were educated, not brainwashed.
I'm a gen z, and yes I will be reading this
is it woke enough to brainwash our kids?
Unfortunately The Ron DeSantis's and Greg Abotts of the world would probably cancel and ban these books.
Agree.
Jane, you're my hero.....thank you for what you do, for the eyes you've opened, the lives you've changed.
Dark Money. Changed my paradigm. Masterpiece.
Jane Mayer an actual journalist a true rarity today well done🤠👍
The tax code is upside down. Tax should exactly be on capital gains, NOT on labor. Think of the enormous infrastructure that labor, business and government most of all put in place on the soil of this nation in order to allow the plutocrats to rise only to have them pay less than nothing back.
Thanks for this extremely insightful and important interview with Jane Mayer. Her book is a must read!
It's great that this is on You Tube.
Extremely enlightening. I thank her for bringing this to us.
Politics & Prose is just amazing, sharing these talks is an act of great kindness and I'm incredibly grateful.
There must be other intellectuals that are not selling Lefty ideology?
@@jandeenphoto theyre exposing corruption and truth not lefty ideologies.
@@lilyfuzz1 I have not listened to enough speakers to judge. Perhaps my random selection was superficial. I am so bored with cliche attacks on Trump and inversion of blame and responsibility as a political tactic and inspiration to pseudo authors who would not have survived the literary disciplines of previous generations. Criminals writing books for a buck and calling it revelation. Amazing. The failure of the justice system extends into education and communication like vermin spreading putrefaction .
All bookstores should be meeting places like this.
@Southeastern777 Avoid the liars and the path will be revealed.
Thank her for her brilliant hard work. Buy buying her book.
Jane Mayer is a remarkable, historic writer, the Atlantic is one of the very best publications of our modern time.
2022, we are under a grinding confluence of dark money & authoritarian personalities. Today is Midterm Election Day, Nov 8, 2022; may the universe ✨ assist us to balance against these forces and push them out in favor of personal freedom.
People elected a billionaire that is appointing other billionaires to fix the system that made them billionaires .... thats a special kind of stupid !!!
It's like hiring Swamp Thing to drain the swamp. Exceptional stupidity.
@BMB I am too. Especially with the stealthy "progress" of surveillance technology. Now our TVs are hooked to our iphones that go directly to big brother, the CIA and Homeland, ballooned to 17 agencies overnight, using the excuse of 9/11, and now there are over a million operatives. There is one operative for every 360 Americans, and we have to pay for it, while the corporations abuse it to stop anyone in their path, especially peace activists, minorities, and environmental activists. They are contrary to the corporocracy. It's as if invisible power, the power non-transparent, and that which we don't elect, has used Orwell's 1984 as a playbook. And they have taken over our democracy. But this is nothing new in our government.. At the turn of the 20th century, the 'proud fascists" as they called themselves then, were DOW, IBM, Ford Motors, Standard Oil, United Fruit Col, Sullivan and Cromwell, Chase, Morgan, Stanley, the Harrimans, the Rockefellers and Bushes....They all funded money to support Hitler and help him rise to power. They tried to assassinate FDR during his presidency on 5 different occasions. When their attempts failed to stop his social programs, they tried a coup, with 5000 men, but it was exposed. And so they then turned to Hitler to start a war in Europe, in order to stop FDR's programs and regulations here. Those companies today are in charge of the NSC, the CIA, and Homeland. They control our Congress. They are the Ministry of Truth.. And yes, that is very scary, especially when FDR promised (had he lived) to have them tried in Nuremberg. But FDR died mysteriously before the war ended, and the Harrimans took over the democratic party. And the fascist Dulles Brothers of Sullivan and Cromwell moved into the State Dept, the CIA and NSC, and manipulated Truman like a toy puppet. And they've been steadily fascisizing our country ever since. And it's even more scary how so many people-=even on progressive sites, fall for the likes of Trump, or Clinton, and are pumped with racial hatred. It's just like Nazi Germany, and the new targets are brown people in America. Ors the poor or disabled. It's horrifically disappointing and frightening and wrong. I'm afraid, as then, a crash is around the corner, and a world war is in the offing. But Americans are so ignorant of what that entails, and we will deeply regret it once it happens.
Anita Clarke : Example of Stupidity:
A bottle of wine does not become
more valuable, it has to be in the cask
to mature in value!
Yes it's stupid because of the inborn need we all have for power... do they want a French Revolution in America???
@@grantmarcus5675 "One "operative" for every 360 Americans". They are the American Stasi. And if you are unfortunate enough to gain their attention you will see this ratio is true by the surveillance you are under. In 2010 it was revealed that Walmart was working with DHS by allowing? their operatives to roam their stores. Now they are placed everywhere; libraries, your local grocery store, cruising the highways and roads. If you are listed and observed your location is phoned in. The car parked along side the road with a single occupant may well be a clown that is enabling this fascist regime. The moron we have for a president serves as a distraction for the goings on behind the curtain. It doesn't matter until it affects you personally. Something you are deprived of that before you took for granted; your vote, your health, your well being, your children's education, a roof over you head, your life. come on people put down the phone and look around.
This book cannot be over praised.
Congratulations to you Jane Mayer. Certainly I will read your book.
When are we going to have a real movement that not only talk about how billionaires have created a living hell for us.
Tons of great Our Revolution candidates running for office all over the country. Flip the senate. Keep congress blue and find out who is running for local office who gets it and who have been vetted by Our Revolution. (That's what I did. I don't work or volunteer for them but I'm awfully glad for them.)
It is now March 2020, and I can see where we are getting closer and closer to that movement becoming a reality. Hopefully, nobody will lose their courage and become too comfortably complacent.
Lionel Nation is an attempt in that direction.
I know, Tee, this is so out of control. It's government of the people, by the people and for the people, not corporations. Just because there's a lot of money involved doesn't mean people should give up. It's the giving up that will give the rich more power. And having a president on their side to undo all that is good for the public should be brought to light. This "pandemic" bailout for the corporations is sickening and the anger should be towards that deceitful Trump for siding with corporations than the American worker right now. $1,200 stimulus check? What a farce. People's rents are $2,000 a month with no utilities. We're going to see more homeless than never before. But first come, first served the hedgefund managers and corporations are priority. Disgusting.
Exactly what I have been saying the last few years. Stunning. We have the Liars vs. Cowards. Some teams, eh?
It's interesting that these presentations at Politics and Prose are usually attendedy by very mature people.
More of the matutre audience have witnessed the developments.
Should be part of every Civics class.
I think the key strategic 'leverage point' is the money, specifically the money system. We need to elect a Congress and President ethical enough to pass the NEED Act which would create a public for-care money system, stop banks from creating our money for profit and establish a monetary authority that would only be tasked with determining the amount of new money required each year to support public objectives determined by Congress, like healthcare, education, infrastructure and a citizen's dividend.
Jane Mayer is in a class all her own as a journalist. God bless her. I hope her next project is on the corporate media itself and its shameful railroading of Julian Assange. We need all the good journalism we can get.
Excellent resource and a great read. Thank you. I quote it often.
I wonder what the subject of her next book could be, besides that, the precision of her English is excellent (what can not be said of all journalists who write books)
Young man at 42.25 going for employee of the month at Goldman Sachs or a Koch company.
Not to mention having "drunk the Kool-Aid" that the subjects of her book have pushed out into the "body politic" -- whose results are on display in this line of questioning!
43:02 obviously boy was auditioning. Scary how these people have bought DC
@@kevinherd3437 maggats although ignorant still seem to come in a number of pretentious flavours.
Obviously a Koch plant.
The problem I have with Libertarians is that they don't want government rule, while they want to rule the governed.
randie vietti they don’t want government ruling “them.”
And gladly accept tax payer money in the form of government hand outs.
Spot on!
Your comment is what one may easily refer to as, "Assume-the-position!"
I'll just throw this in: a corporation is different from a sole proprietor or "company" in that it consists of a raft of special status granted by Government. It isn't automatic. Every libertarian who owns or manages a corporation must CHOOSE to organize the corporate form, choose officers, and apply with (request) this Government Partnership.
A *TRUE* Libertarian would reject forming a corporation, for others and especially for themselves, on principle.
On the other hand, that would leave them *personally liable* for all damages recovered by lawsuits, which would be "personal responsibility". *The key purpose of the corporate form is to shield founders and shareholders* - owners - from *most personal responsibility* except (maybe) to shareholders, including themselves.
This form makes it possible for absent shareholders to exist, for the corporation to sell public shares.
It frankly makes a lot of good things possible, such as taking more RISKS of failure in business, more RISKS of innovation, without exposing everything you own, such as your life savings and future earnings, to total loss.
But that occurs BECAUSE of Government Assistance .. and tends to benefit Large corporations over Small Corporations, since the latter can't afford a raft of lawyers to defend legal cases in federal courts and to attack other corporations for patent violations, or to legally attack individuals who use a likeness of Donald Duck in a public kiddie park.
Patents and Intellectual Property, preventing copying and competition, are, of course, another useful but problematic gift of Big Government. Yes, patents can help innovation .. or stifle innovation. Some companies have done Research & Dev on innovations they never intend to make, in order to block other competitors, or force competitors to pay royalties for ideas.
A small child can charge $1.00 for lemonade, without (much) govt involvement, but she doesn't get govt assistance to shut down a competing lemonade stand.
This point is mostly about libertarian hypocrisy, but there ARE useful purposes for patents, IP, and corporate law, just as there are useful purposes for govt regulations on doing business and useful purposes for govt assistance to consumers.
Have you ever met a libertarian willing to discuss abolishing all corporate law and all corporate charters, and patent rights, the whole system, just to be principled?
Argh, The Powell Memo! Its a very short read but I've had little success in getting people to read it. They just can't be bothered, yet it was the blueprint for all Big Business's dastardly deeds.
Yes! That and a much longer read called ‘The Crisis of Democracy’ dovetails nicely with it.
@@forrestgossett Thanks, I'll have to check out The Crisis of Democracy as that one is new to me. There were efforts before the 70s of extremist business people like Joseph Coors in funding "The New Right (movement conservatives)" but it was not nearly as successful, or sophisticated as it would become after the Powell Memo.
You didn't need an interviewer she is a wonderful speaker
Indeed.
"It took guts." Amen to that. I'm reading Dark Money now. She's a modern day Ida Tarbell. Thank God for her.
My Imorata wonder which god you thank
@@zackp5294 Of course me.I am that I am!
this channel is criminally underrated.
Great interview very informative listening from London, England 🇬🇧👍🏾....
Great discussion, and I have been meaning to check out this book for a long time. I have read Democracy in Chains by Nancy Mclean, which is about the Koch network, and that assembly line, which Mayer aptly calls that was set up with the far-right economic thinkers like Gordon Tullock, and particularly James M. Buchanan. I think it was published after this one. That book ties in very well to this one. The man who asked the question about education with school vouchers and stuff would be very interested in reading that book as Buchanan played a huge role in pushing voucher programs for education in the South around Brown v Board of Education (1954). The famous economist Milton Friedman played a role as well. The Chicago School of Economics first took over Republican politics, which Friedman was a part of with Reagan, and then the Virginia School (public choice theory economics was even more radical) took over more with the Koch influence. Privatizing education and things like voucher programs was one of the major focuses of Buchanan in his career. He founded the Virginia school of economics with Charles Koch and they took over George Mason University in Virginia as being the base to connect with Washington politics. One thing I would like to hear more of an opinion on from Mayer is in regards to race. A lot of the ideas behind the Koch economics have roots in the leading southern slaveholder John Calhoun's philosophy since they were so focused on finding a way for the minority to be able to defeat the will of the majority, and Brown v Board of Education was a decision that really galvanized the so called libertarian movement.
One thing Jane did not mention about climate change and the Koch Brothers. Talk about egregious - the Koch Brothers hated the topic of climate change and they wanted to take total control of the topic. The way they did this was to donate millions to Universities that had great departments about climate change. Virginia’s largest public university granted the conservative Charles Koch Foundation a say in the hiring and firing of professors in exchange for millions of dollars in donations, according to released documents. The release of donor agreements between George Mason University and the foundation follows years of denials by university administrators that Koch foundation donations inhibit academic freedom.
The Charles Koch Foundation and the now-defunct Claude R. Lambe Foundation are member organizations of the Koch Family Foundations. Each year, the family's foundations contribute hundreds of thousands of dollars to academic institutions. According to the Charles G. Koch Foundation website, "the Foundation primarily supports research and higher education programs that analyze the impact of free societies, in particular how they advance the well-being of mankind."[1]
According to IRS tax filing data compiled by Greenpeace, Charles Koch( Deceased) has given over $68 million to over 300 universities from 2005 to 2013.[2] The Center for Public Integrity calculated that the Kochs spent $19.3 million on 163 colleges and universities in 2013 alone.
The majority of the Universities receiving the Koch money are on the east coast. There are 2 great universities in Texas that have a great Atmospheric Department : Texas Tech and Texas A&M and they do not money from the Koch Brothers.
Now that Charles Koch is deceased- the donations to Universities may slow down because he was the top leader of the group( only 3 brothers now).
It was actually David Koch who passed. Charles Koch is still alive at the time of this writing @@tommytillery4973
I am loving the book. I'ts eye opening and super interesting.
One of the best books ever read and understand the road to BREXIT ! ££££ect
Dear Jane Mayer!
I’m almost in love with you, there is nothing more beautiful in this world than a smart woman. I’m certainly not the only one who feels that way. I’m glad that you exist and I’m looking forward to your next book.
This is a different level of interesting, it was difficult to break away.
The old saying rings true, money and power corrupts, absolutely, there’s a thin line between genius and insanity, influenced by ideology and family...sadly !!
🟣🟣🟣 THX 4 having Jane Mayer on the show! "Dark Money" should be required reading in all History of the USA classes.‼‼‼
Look at the guy at 42:27 what he says is very telling. He is obviously a young libertarian who just came to the event to throw some doubt on Jane Mayer`s research. I am concerned about the strange fascination that some rather self-centered young men (with delusions about their grandeur/standing in the "wealth" hierarchy of this world and often a lack of empathy) have for libertarianism. Looking at the audience in the room, I see mostly grey hair. I wish more young people would read Jane Mayer`s work or a t least watch her talk. Her research is of essential importance! (The second young men who wants to "un-Koch" the infamous campus of George-Mason-University (a libertarian haven with lots of Koch money) gives me some hope. More of this, please!
After all, those "dark money" donors are changing public opinion - that concerns us all (even outside the US). I just say: Climate Change!
Young leftists/liberals/progressives have to take those "old dude" donors and "loony" libertarian guys more seriously. I recommend them to study the playbook of the Koch`s and their fellow travellers, emulate what is possible (the grassroot work, the "legwork" of people going from door to door and informing people). They should reveal the strategies and the intentions of the wealthy donors to as many people as possible. People have to be alerted, have to understand where their "opinion" e.g. of Climate Change "originates" from. Hard work, sure, but the attempt has to be made.
Otherwise democracy is virtually dead. And the environment. And the wellfare state.
So, recommend the book/audiobook and Jane Mayer`s interviews etc.!!!
Alix Mordant look
There were a few young people there but not many. You have to look for them.
BLACKSTONE GROUP OWNS EVERYTHING USA IS DEFEATED LIKE ROME A SONG FOR ANOTHER DAY!
Democracy is two wolfs and a sheep voting on who is for dinner. Stop legal plunder.
some people know how to hold a microphone and speak into it so that they can be heard and others apparently just don't care.
Excellent!
If there were a higher value on fairness and higher levels of morality free market would not be problematic...
You are correct , Living within boundaries will produce fairer and more ethical results , we all sense that we've moved outside of those boundaries that keep us , and now the flailing of chaotic and rampant greed ,is bringing forth a self destruction ,Historically and biblically , humans have been here before , Here we go again ,learning a lesson in HUMILITY , It is a true thing , That if we , humanity won't humble ourselves , then , God , the universe will humiliate us , for our own good ,,,, of course , This gives the natural world of creation ,a chance to recuperate , ani angela nz messenger AROHA NUI Endsoftheearth nz
The one lesson I've learned by watching this video is that if you go to the very extremes of the Political Spectrum - either Right or Left - the only people you will find are criminals.
That is a fascinating observation.... it seems that the extremes tend to drive/influence the middle. So this is concerning.
What? The center is the most corrupt. Mainstream Ds and Rs are rolling in corporate money, dark and 'light'
@@xiaokourou Maybe so, but I didn't say corrupt, I said criminal. Believe it or not there is a difference between the two, although I'll grant you that there's not much of a difference. From what I've heard, from many commentators, politics in the US is run by big business.
There’s an easy solution, but it requires ruthlessness that these billionaires fear the most, but it’s their actions to prevent what they fear the most that causes what they fear to come about in one form or another....let’s hope it’s the more intelligent scientific democratic solution and path of peace! Great work of investigative journalism, thank you, Jane
I think what we need to do to defeat these ideas is for Democrats to do a better job of getting people out to vote. Despite having the majority they have to overcome all the gerrymandering, voter suppression, and a senate that gives disproportionate power to the Republican minority. Democrats also need to do a better job of putting aside their own differences. I think they are starting to try to unite themselves around their shared defense of Democracy and the Constitution, which the Republicans are set on destroying. Republicans since the 90s in particular got good at setting aside differences and uniting around Democrats as a common enemy. This was also when they started to get really big on the research of public opinion with things like focus groups, which Mayer brings up.
Big money has always been behind the socialization processes which include education religion and other behavioral shaping institutions.
What is the current situation now in 2020 with Koch brothers influence now that Charles died last year
the story of ex nypd commissioner Howard Safir just to discredit her is beyond scary. this has to stop.
Interesting to look back on this
With other words, we have to change the sick mindset of technocrats who are deciding for humanity at all levels.
They will be held accountable for their actions. Everything is being brought to the surface. It will take time. Please be patient. God bless and much love and light.
The United States needs legislation, regulation and oversight to get dark money out of politics, government, and education. A huge problem is that at least 3 seats on the SCOTUS have been bought and filled with 3 right-wing extremist Judges. The network of dark money has expanded across the US and it is strong and deep.
Sadly every hard-right justice on the supreme court, which is currently 5 out of 9 are what I would call extremists that have been bought by big business, and Trump appointed 3. Chief Justice Roberts is on the fence of that. We have even seen how Clarence Thomas lives a lavish life because Billionaires keep funding it for him since he initially expressed a desire to resign and go make more money in the private sector around the year 2000 when it could have been a Democrat replacing him. Billionaires would not let that happen. The Koch machine is not just with economists, but also legal scholars that they can pack courts with, and get out as lawyers too.
Bernie Sanders of “Our Revolution”
The calmer confidence of honesty.
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I wish the volume was higher
Refer to Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse's speeches on the floor about the capture of the federal courts, The Federalist Society pipeline, capture of the SCOTUS.
Agreed, that this needs more attention. It is part of the Koch pipeline she talks about to get legal scholars trained and then put on the courts through the Federalist Society. The Kochs are a major donor along with other billionaires of the Federalst Society.
The “anonymous source” guy was such an obvious political operative plant, but like all libertarians he couldn’t help from tripping over his own claims.
Yeah, I think sourcing is a good thing to address, but he worded his question in such a typical right-wing gotcha way that it was clear what his motivations were. I think Mayer should have made it clear that anonymous sourcing is very common for scholars because people would rightfully be concerned of the backlash from the right if they had their name on record. People would lose their careers in right-wing politics if they spoke out negatively. On the record they would just have typical PR rehearsed talking points if they would even speak to her at all.
what an amazing woman
And to think 6 years later these exact same players, after having used their influence, money, think-tanks etc in a campaign to sow doubt about covid-19 mitigations, have succeeded in the midst of a pandemic that has killed millions, to get governments and societies to turn their back on public health measures and actively pursue mass infection is very dispiriting.
I guess she should know about "dark money". Her paternal great-great-grandfather was Emanuel Lehman, one of the founders of Lehman Brothers. Her maternal grandparents were Mary Fleming (Richardson) and Allan Nevins, a historian and John D. Rockefeller, Jr.'s authorized biographer, who wrote that, despite the Ludlow Massacre, Rockefeller and his fellow industrialists "...did nothing criminal."
Hmm
Are you trying to label her a hypocrite?
It is now March of 2019 and I am looking back at this talk and how timely Ms Mayer’s book was. Unfortunately, it came a couple years too late. 📈📆📉😢
It seems that the one most important institution in which I wish it, rather than actual “Dark Money”, would have infiltrated is the Electoral College.
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Nonetheless, I applaud Jane as well as anyone and everyone who supported her efforts.
Thank you so very much for lighting a candle 🙏🏻🕯 to finally shed a glimmer of light in the midst all of the darkness. Absolutely amazing work, research and passion. Again, thank you ever so much.
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Where's the tape?
30 or 40 years ago, I thought that capital gains taxes were the worst evil, and horribly unfair.
Now, after a lot of life and dishonest people, retired and disabled on only social security and a tiny amount from the VA, capital gains taxes sound very good to me...along with every progressive change possible...
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Brilliant.
Thank you for this video. Very interesting and disturbing at the same time.
Excellent way to pass an hour.
5:38 - the real start of the first question ... intro is done, bald guy blabbles for a while and then finally asks a question ... Mayer is absolutely brilliant !
The bald guy is just annoying.
Life is a mystery hidden in a history!!!...
New interview with Mayer: th-cam.com/video/dFvNdk_YHxY/w-d-xo.html
Should also factor in Tim Snyder's "The Road to Unfreedom" into this narrative.
When neuroscience begins to factor in the pre-conscious survival instincts, in this case social dominance hierarchies, we might begin to know the enemy well enough to intervene more effectively in avoiding abuses of power. As it is, a ruthless, tiny minority will always concentrate power.
Neuroscience is something I bring up repeatedly when explaining what happened to the GOP. Grievance activates the same neural pathways as drug addictions do, shutting off critical thinking and Republican Operatives began tapping into it through the 1970s when they saw how successful George Wallace's 1968 campaign was. Then from the late 80s right wing media took off with the grievance model, and now you have such a large segment of the population that is so incredibly tribal and angry all the time at Democrats that they don't care about anything else politically other than harming their political opposition. There are also plenty of other propaganda techniques the right wing has mastered in their messaging over the decades where their base lives in an alternate reality now that can't be penetrated with facts or reasoning.
"Ideas have power." Yep. The American right-wing rhetorician Richard Weaver started preaching that idea to the conservatives way back in the 50s with his book, "Ideas Have Consequences." Unfortunately, right-wing ideas are wrong, in general--but they still have consequences, and we're seeing those consequences in the decimation of America over the past forty years.
I like their foundation thinking. Less govt, and need a check for moderation. They want immigration unchecked for cheap labor. I do not like that at all. We need to elect different people in congress to create a legal immigration system.
How's that wall coming along?
Their thinking does not involve 'moderation'. They don't want any checks and balances. They also sacrificed libertarian principles for cheap labor with immigrants and went hard right on anti-immigration instead as it is a litmus test in the Republican Party now. Much of the jobs that have been lost for blue collar America is due to outsourcing to foreign countries where labor is much cheaper with worse conditions. After the 2012 election, which Mayer discusses the Republican Party also tried to be more inclusive and less nasty as their white base was shrinking, but the extremists wouldn't let them and they quickly went in the opposite direction. Republicans don't actually want a better immigration system. They just want the public to keep thinking it is broken, and that Democrats are responsible as Republicans need to keep things broken so they can keep that storyline going. Only the Dems actually want to 'fix' immigration.
She did a good job exposing the right and we also need to be just as scrutinizing of the left
The Ida Tarbell of this generation
that picture of pharoah kufu behind her is powerful...they know where that energy come from
Is "evil" a 4-letter word we can't use about these people? 🤔 (Green Fire, UK) 🌈🦉
there is a little old educated lady who comes to many of these readings and always gets in line first..so I say hey, lady..share..plenty of people will ask your same question.
Bezos is also a libertarian.
Good review - I would like to see about all the Foundations and the amount of money they are bringing in. The people here you are talking about worked to get where they are at. I would like to learn more about all of the Foundations in the U.S. that I have heard are profitable due to donations. I would like to hear more about this. I like to have a good foundation about all the players in the field so I can base my opinion that way. It appears this is biased to the right, I want to hear the left so I can form my own opinion. I do not like to be fed a one-sided story and expected to believe what I am being told.
No one needs to make the "government seem dysfunctional." Only a blatant disregard for the facts could conclude otherwise.
The market its self is a construct of governance.
yeah thanks for all you're hard work maybe ill buy you're book one day i love money
Climate change is a challenge for the job creators
Very good discussion, so my take on this is as follows; When one puts money and self interest before Gods best interest then your subject to corruption, and what is Gods best interest, it’s not humans, it’s earths biosphere which supports all life...humans will ultimately destroy himself by putting a price tag on everything especially himself... so mans ego, motives, ignorance, and priorities that will lead us down dark roads towards his sad demise...Nature like god does not discriminate, G.E.T.S...!!!!
It always perks my ears when ppl speak for God. How do u know what God's interest is? Anything u think of would be centered around ur human disposition at the time of thought and we know that can change. Then u equate nature as being like God if so I have more of a basis for claiming myself God: let us make man in our own image...to have Dominion (over the earth and every living thing in it).
Ricardo SCloud your as ridiculous as your religious beliefs, religion is about controlling humans and exploiting natural resources and developing...the Bible was written by humans not god, so all your so justifications that we can abuse this planet resources and kill all life because you wrongly believe that God made this earth for us when we humans have only been around for a short time....is arrogant, egotistical and brainwashed....
To bring back decency and a kinder society (if we ever did have it in the first place) we need FDR even more Progressives to do what the Koch did!
UKindness4 ....FDR had hundreds of new deal lawyers and judges whose schooling they financed
disco 60s?
How about the role of MAINSTREAM MEDIA to promote/hide this IDIOCY ?
Yup, it has played a large role. There have been other scholars who have focused on that aspect more. Nicole Hemmer's books Messengers of the Right, and Partisans are 2 that you may be interested in checking out. Since Rush Limbaugh proved to be such a hit so quickly beginning in the late 80s the right wing big money groups put a lot of funding into the right wing media that is similar in style.
What about Soros???
D Stew what about soros? U wanna paint him with the same brush as fox would?
Soros is just a boogyman for the right wing to serve as their false equivalence to try to distract from what they do.
- Koch brothers story is hillarious , just for example Charles Koch got Defender of Justice award from the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers , LOL
I liked the retired lobbyist. I thought his questions were relevant, if unexpected. Why did the lady look so irritated, like she thought she was being played?
Oh, why do we always mature to embody the type of person that we scorned when we were young?
Do we?
Very interesting, thanks
Who was that red jacketed plant with the “is this an opinion piece in your opinion?” Bwa-hahahaha!
The apparent average age of this crowd is more than frightening.
We need young people to get interested more in civics as well as to make sure they also have the skills, and desire to filter out all the propaganda. The right wing has been working hard to try to recruit young people into their movement through groups like Turning Point USA, although it is all a bunch of sophists engaging in grievance and theater to garner interests. Laziness and grievance like the right-wing is about is hard to compete with.
And they succeeded !!!!!!!
Still the line is that they are 'brilliant' - yet most of us could put two and two together and see that climate change was indeed a thing long ago. Really, it's that money talks, simple as. And now humanity has lost precious years tackling this problem as Americans have been churning out carbon emissions long after they could have worked out effective solutions. We, outside the US, are doing what we can....
Bribes and cons is not public service. Tell them please.
"How do they feel about the police?"... "I don't really know." Well, then you don't know too much about libertarians.
To a libertarian a Police Force means that someone else's taxes pay for it and they don't have to pay for security guards.
Well, libertarians in the US actually went with conservatives. It is a litmus test in Republican politics to double down on law and order, where law and order disproportionately targets the poor, and particularly African Americans, and Immigrants, while the capitalist class are not held accountable for crimes. Reagan really began that transformation with the Republican Party. It is one of those compromises Libertarians made that Mayer discusses. It doesn't matter what Republican voting Libertarians really think about crime outside of this.
great revelations of very partial truths. nyt style. trump may have been the only candidate who didn't ask 'the koch brothers' for money, why did he appoint b. devos, et cetera, et cetera... politics everywhere are doomed to fail.
He got money from the Mercer family donator circle, Fulan Gong and Russia+Turkey+Saudi. The Mercers have pretty much merged back with the Koch network.