Thursday, November 3, 2016

Dark Money

Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right by Jane Mayer, 2016

Read in October 2016 over the course of several days. This book was a revelation of things we have all come to believe over the years and the old saying of follow the money.

The book is about the reasons for the profound inequality found in the American economy and the extremely wealthy people with radical libertarian views behind this situation. They promote the basic conservative belief against so called Big Government in their attempt to alter the government of America and the basics of democracy.

The chief leaders of this anti-democracy conservative movement are the Koch brothers who fund the efforts of these organizations to reconfigure government to their benefit.

The book is well written and researched. It is extremely important in understanding the current attacks on American democracy.


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