Anti-American, Foreign Donors Are Paying Off Our Profs. Shouldn’t We Address This?
Mr Independent.
You dont sound like an independent to me, you sound like a moveon.org leftist.
SA has 5% non-voting shares in Fox News. So what. Non-voting means they dont dictate any policy there. Have you considered they invested because Fox news is very a profitable investment?
So the Koch brothers donated a lot of money to the Tea Party. That does not make Tea Party members dupes. There are lots of people in this country with libertarian/conservative beleifs, including me, and I support the Tea Party for that reason. I had my libertarian beleifs long before I heard of the Tea Party. I suspect most Tea Partiers were the same.
That many people dont volunteer their time to a movement because they are astroturfed dupes, but because they beleive in the positions of the movement. And I suspect if the Koch brothers ever really did try to dictate policy to the Tea Party, where the members didn’t already beleive in those positions, given what I know about the independent and anti authority streak of many libertarians, they would desert in droves. And given the record of the Tea Party in 2010, lots of non Tea Party members appear to beleive in their goals as well. If you want a real example of astroturfing, look at the Coffee Party.
I know leftists like you cannot beleive that lots of americans sincerely beleive in less government, control of spending, less regulation, more personal freedom, and other goals, and so you have to set up this Koch Brothers dupes straw man.
Personally, I consider Soros, and Koch to be about the same. I like Koch because I agree with their goals and positions, and hate Soros because I dont. You beleive the opposite. But stop this dupes nonsense. I could just as easily say that you are a dupe of Soros, but I wont. It is possible for people to oppose leftist big gov without being dupes. I know Marxists like to talk about the proletariat being mystified by the capitalists or the church, and voting against their class interests. But I found most americans have more sense, and they oppose socialism because they have seen it constantly fail, and prefer individual freedom, to collectivism. They value freedon more than they value sticking it to rich people. What you are basically saying is anybody who disagrees with you must be a stupid dupe. This leftist condesention is one reason why leftism is failing today.
