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The Roots of Stalin in the Tea Party Movement
* By Yasha Levine AlterNet *
The Koch family, America’s biggest financial backers of the Tea Party, would not be the billionaires they are today were it not for the godless empire of the USSR.
The Tea Party movement’s dirty little secret is that its chief financial backers owe their family fortune to the granddaddy of all their hatred: Stalin’s godless empire of the USSR. The secretive oil billionaires of the Koch family, the main supporters of the right-wing groups that orchestrated the Tea Party movement, would not have the means to bankroll their favorite causes had it not been for the pile of money the family made working for the Bolsheviks in the late 1920s and early 1930s, building refineries, training Communist engineers and laying down the foundation of Soviet oil infrastructure.
The comrades were good to the Kochs. Today Koch Industries has grown into the second-largest private company in America. With an annual revenue of $100 billion, the company was just $6.3 billion shy of first place in 2008. Ownership is kept strictly in the family, with the company being split roughly between brothers Charles and David Koch, who are worth about $20 billion apiece and are infamous as the largest sponsors of right-wing causes. They bankroll scores of free-market and libertarian think tanks, institutes and advocacy groups. Greenpeace estimates that the Koch family shelled out $25 million from 2005 to 2008 funding the “climate denial machine,” which means they outspent Exxon Mobile three to one.
I first learned about the Kochs in February 2009, when my colleague Mark Ames and I were looking into the strange origins of the then-nascent Tea Party movement. Our investigation led us again and again to a handful of right-wing advocacy groups directly tied to the Kochs. We were the first to connect the dots and debunk the Tea Party movement’s “grassroots” front, exposing it as billionaire-backed astroturf campaign run by free-market advocacy groups FreedomWorks and Americans For Prosperity, both of which are closely linked to the Koch brothers.
But the Tea Party movement — and the Koch family’s obscene wealth — go back more than half a century, all the way to grandpa Fredrick C. Koch, one of the founding members of the far-right John Birch Society which was convinced that socialism was taking over America through unions, colored people, Jews, homosexuals, the Kennedys and even Dwight D. Eisenhower.
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Higgins: Levine’s article is clearly insane when it tries to link the Tea Parties to the Far, FAR Left, murderous Stalin regime. You leftist idiots protest too much.
Try, just try going to a Tea Party event instead of hanging out at your local bar.
Have a glass of water on me, Higgins, to clear your brain of this trash.
Tom Texas Vet
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You are an unmitigated ass.
You should have your inane comment made into a rubber stamp; it would save you a great deal of time commenting on this site.
If you don’t begin to self moderate your comments I will start marking them as the useless spam that they are.
Thank you sir for posting just what I was thinking
I am, of course, referring to the article about Higgins seeing it all!
I would agree with Tom,…..to even mention the Tea Party movement with Stalin is absolutely un heard of. I went to one recently and saw a lot of decent people, i.e., teachers, ex vets from all wars, hard working farmers and medical people. As I said before, the above comments are in line with the same comment House Speaker Pelosi said when referring the Tea Party people as Nazis.
I find that in your autobiography it is mentioned you seen it all,….that in itself is totally unbelievable.
A whole lot of people will read this post and think that grandpa, Federic Koch was right in his assement from a few years ago. I love the American people, we are generous, kind and will go out of our way to help anyone but the one flaw in our personality is that we are against anything that does not directly benefit us in some way. Even if we get a benefit from some government action, we are against it if we don’t understand it. Some people don’t trust change and sometimes these people are right.
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i find this offensive. it also shows a complete and total lack of any “experience”. your take on this entire issue sucks!!!
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