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Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️ (persagen@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 19-Aug-2024 04:08:33 JST Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️

To understand the toxicity of billionaires, partic. Charles Koch
ultraconservative advocacy/lobbying/attack ads
state capture: political/legislative/judicial
libertarianism: deregulation; anti-union/taxation
eradication of social programs/public education/benefits
misogyny
read
Jane Mayer, Dark Money (2016)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Money_(book)
Nancy MacLean, Democracy in Chains (2019)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_in_Chains
Gary Allen, None Dare Call It Conspiracy (1970)
https://archive.org/details/none-dare-call-it-conspiracy_202101
#Koch #subversion #GOP
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  NONE DARE CALL IT CONSPIRACY
  
  by Gary Allen with Larry Abraham
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  Once Enemies, Trumpists and Mainstream Conservatives Are Now Chillingly United
  The Heritage Foundation’s president announced in January that the foundation’s role is “institutionalizing Trumpism”
  https://truthout.org/articles/once-enemies-trumpists-and-mainstream-conservatives-are-now-chillingly-united
  #Koch #capitalism #GOP #RepublicanParty #Trump #Trumpism #MAGA #billionaires #corporations #libertarianism #ChristianRight #conservatism #HeritageFoundation #LeonardLeo #SCOTUS #ConservativePartnershipInstitute #CPI
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    Once Enemies, Trumpists and Mainstream Conservatives Are Now Chillingly United
    
    from Sam Rosenthal
    
    The Heritage Foundation’s president announced in January that the foundation’s role is “institutionalizing Trumpism.”…
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  Addendum to thread landing page:
  None Dare Call It Conspiracy (1972) Gary Allen
  https://archive.org/details/none-dare-call-it-conspiracy_202101
  "We are going to have a dictatorship of the elite disguised as the dictatorship of the proletariat”
  Discussed 2024-Jul:
  J. D. Vance Is Summoning John Birch Society
  Populist appeals indistinguishable f. economic vision of 1970s John Birch Society
  https://jacobin.com/2024/07/vance-trump-gop-john-birch
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Allen
  Senior member, John Birch Society
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Birch_Society
  #libertarianism #Koch #fascism #GOP
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    John Birch Society
    
    The John Birch Society (JBS) is an American right-wing political advocacy group. Founded in 1958, it is anti-communist, supports social conservatism, and is associated with ultraconservative, radical right, far-right, right-wing populist, and right-wing libertarian ideas. Originally based in Belmont, Massachusetts, the JBS is now headquartered in Grand Chute, Wisconsin, with local chapters throughout the United States. It owns American Opinion Publishing, Inc., which publishes the magazine The New American, and it is affiliated with an online school called FreedomProject Academy. The society's founder, businessman Robert W. Welch Jr. (1899–1985), developed an organizational infrastructure of nationwide chapters in December 1958. The society rose quickly in membership and influence, and also became known for Welch's conspiracy theories. His allegation that Dwight D. Eisenhower was a communist agent was especially controversial. In the 1960s, the conservative William F. Buckley Jr. and National Review attempted to shun the JBS to the fringes of the American right. JBS membership is kept private but is said to have neared...
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  Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️ (persagen@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 19-Aug-2024 04:08:32 JST Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️
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  Scholar charted decline in religion; church he pastors closing its doors
  https://apnews.com/article/illinois-christian-baptist-church-closure-religious-trends-c6b9e938eb228c8018fb911b02a791f0
  * 4,500 Protestant churches closed in 2019
  * churches dwindle due to scandal, conflict, mobility, indifference, lower birth rates, switching to a church they like better
  * most Americans remain religious
  * some surveys suggest that the long rise of the “nones” has slowed/paused
  * nonreligious far more common today in U.S./other nations than generation ago
  #USA #religion #demographics
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    As a scholar, he's charted the decline in religion. Now the church he pastors has closed its doors
    
    First Baptist Church of Mt. Vernon, Illinois, has held the last service of its 156-year history. It's among many U.S. churches that close their doors each year.
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  Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️ (persagen@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 19-Aug-2024 04:08:32 JST Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️
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  Project 2025 Links Revolving Door of Players & Far Right Political Funding
  Such cross-pollination - common in political circles - becoming regular occurrence among hate groups
  https://truthout.org/articles/project-2025-links-a-revolving-door-of-players-and-far-right-political-funding
  * For Republicans goal is to keep white Christian nationalists in power at all costs
  #Koch #capitalism #GOP #RepublicanParty #Trumpism #MAGA #billionaires #corporations #libertarianism #ChristianRight #conservatism #HeritageFoundation #LeonardLeo #SCOTUS #ConservativePartnershipInstitute #CPI
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  Like QAnon, to most Americans the U.S. Republican Party is now an American religion based on belief, conspiracies, dogma.
  Religion: range of social-cultural systems, incl. designated behaviors & practices, morals, beliefs, worldviews, texts, sanctified places, prophecies, ethics, or organizations, that generally relate humanity to supernatural, transcendental, & spirituality
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion
  Behind the scenes Christian right / libertarian billionaires pull the strings.
  #GOP #QAnon
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  The GOP As We Knew It Is Long Gone And May Never Return
  https://talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo/the-gop-as-we-knew-it-is-long-gone-and-may-never-return
  #Koch #evil #capitalism #GOP #RepublicanParty #Trumpism #MAGA #QAnon #billionaires #corporations #libertarianism #ChristianRight #conservatism #homophobia #transphobia #HeritageFoundation #LeonardLeo #SCOTUS
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    The GOP As We Knew It Is Long Gone And May Never Return
    
    from @TPM
    
    A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This...
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  America's nonreligious are a growing, diverse phenomenon. They really don't like organized religion
  https://projects.apnews.com/features/2023/the-nones/the-nones-us.html
  * most religions are there to control people and get money from them said Dulak (76, Missouri)
  * he also cited sex abuse scandals in Catholic & Southern Baptist churches
  * as Dulak rejects being part of a religious flock, he has plenty of company
  * he is a “none” ... the kind that checks “none” when pollsters ask “What’s your religion?”
  #USA #religion #demographics
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  Koch network’s flagship super PAC pours big money into 2024 elections
  https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2024/08/koch-network-flagship-super-pac-pours-big-money-into-2024-elections
  * Koch network flagship group
  * 2 decades financially influencing U.S. elections
  * AFP super PAC ranks 3rd in outside spending in 2024 cycle
  * Americans for Prosperity Action, hybrid PAC affiliated w. AFP, spent $257+ million since 2004
  * supports conservative congressional/presidential candidates
  #Koch #evil #AmericansForProsperity #billionaires #ElectoralFraud #libertarianism #fascism #superPAC #GOP
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  6 Billionaire Fortunes Bankrolling Project 2025
  $120+ million f. few ultra-wealthy families powering Heritage Foundation to remake American gov.
  https://mastodon.social/@persagen/112962304294428041
  https://www.desmog.com/2024/08/14/project-2025-billionaire-donor-heritage-foundation-donald-trump-jd-vance-charles-koch-peter-coors
  Evil:
  Coors Family
  Charles Koch
  Richard & Elizabeth Uihlein
  Scaife Family
  Barre Seid (also gave $1.6 BILLION to Leonard Leo)
  Bradley Family
  #billionaires #EnablingFascism #GOP #Trumpism #HeritageFoundation #KevinRoberts #Project2025 #FamilyResearchCouncil #TonyPerkins #fascism #libertarianism #FarRight
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    6 Billionaire Fortunes Bankroll Project 2025 $120+ million f. ultra-wealthy families powering Heritage Foundation to remake American gov. https://www.desmog.com/2024/08/14/project-2025-billionaire-donor-heritage-foundation-donald-trump-jd-vance-charles-koch-peter-coors Enabling fascism: Coors Family Charles Koch Richard & Elizabeth Uihlein Scaife Family Barre Seid (also gave $1.6 BILLION to Leonard Leo) Bradley Family #billionaires #EnablingFascism #GOP #Trump #Trumpism #HeritageFoundation #KevinRoberts #Project2025 #FamilyResearchCouncil #TonyPerkins #fascism #libertarianism #FarRight #antiLGBT
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  John Birch Society
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Birch_Society
  * right-wing political advocacy group
  * anti-communist; social conservatism
  * ultraconservative, radical right, far-right, right-wing populism/libertarianism
  * founders: Harry Lynde Bradley (Bradley Foundation), Fred C. Koch (Koch Industries) ...
  * Trump 2016 election: JBS core instincts finally reflected in White House
  * political commentator, 2016: Trumpism" essent. Bircherism
  #GaryAllen #Koch #Trump #billionaires #libertarianism #fascism
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