Wednesday, October 27, 2010

The Danger In Free Market Think Tanks

Most of these bodies call themselves “free-market thinktanks”, but their trick – as (Astro)Turf Wars points out – is to conflate crony capitalism with free enterprise, and free enterprise with personal liberty. Between them they have constructed the philosophy that informs the Tea Party movement: its members mobilise for freedom, unaware that the freedom they demand is freedom for corporations to trample them into the dirt. The thinktanks that the Kochs have funded devise the game and the rules by which it is played; Americans for Prosperity coaches and motivates the team.
George Monbiot

Tea Klanners want more freedom for corporations because they think Government is bad. You can vote for politicians, once corporations own the process, we're toast.

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