Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Neoliberal Right - Jane Mayer Audiobook
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Why is America living in an age of profound economic inequality? Why, despite the desperate need to address climate change, have even modest environmental efforts been defeated again and again? Why have protections for employees been decimated? Why do hedge-fund billionaires pay a far lower tax rate than middle-class workers?
The conventional answer is that a popular uprising against “big government” led to the ascendancy of a broad-based conservative movement. But as Jane Mayer shows in this powerful, meticulously reported history, a network of exceedingly wealthy people with extreme neoliberal views bankrolled a systematic, step-by-step plan to fundamentally alter the American political system.
The network has brought together some of the richest people on the planet. Their core beliefs—that taxes are a form of tyranny; that government oversight of business is an assault on freedom—are sincerely held. But these beliefs also advance their personal and corporate interests: Many of their companies have run afoul of federal pollution, worker safety, securities, and tax laws.
The chief figures in the network are Charles and David Koch, whose father made his fortune in part by building oil refineries in Stalin’s Russia and Hitler’s Germany. The patriarch later was a founding member of the John Birch Society, whose politics were so radical it believed Dwight Eisenhower was a communist. The brothers were schooled in a political philosophy that asserted the only role of government is to provide security and to enforce property rights.
When neoliberal ideas proved decidedly unpopular with voters, the Koch brothers and their allies chose another path. If they pooled their vast resources, they could fund an interlocking array of organizations that could work in tandem to influence and ultimately control academic institutions, think tanks, the courts, statehouses, Congress, and, they hoped, the presidency. Richard Mellon Scaife, the mercurial heir to banking and oil fortunes, had the brilliant insight that most of their political activities could be written off as tax-deductible “philanthropy.”
These organizations were given innocuous names such as Americans for Prosperity. Funding sources were hidden whenever possible. This process reached its apotheosis with the allegedly populist Tea Party movement, abetted mightily by the Citizens United decision—a case conceived of by legal advocates funded by the network.
The political operatives the network employs are disciplined, smart, and at times ruthless. Mayer documents instances in which people affiliated with these groups hired private detectives to impugn whistle-blowers, journalists, and even government investigators. And their efforts have been remarkably successful. Neoliberal views on taxes and regulation, once far outside the mainstream and still rejected by most Americans, are ascendant in the majority of state governments, the Supreme Court, and Congress. Meaningful environmental, labor, finance, and tax reforms have been stymied.
Jane Mayer spent five years conducting hundreds of interviews-including with several sources within the network-and scoured public records, private papers, and court proceedings in reporting this book. In a taut and utterly convincing narrative, she traces the byzantine trail of the billions of dollars spent by the network and provides vivid portraits of the colorful figures behind the new American oligarchy.
Dark Money is a book that must be read by anyone who cares about the future of American democracy.
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This post has 11 comments with rating of 4.6/5
January 26th, 2016
If you are a democrat or progressive or liberal it’s the koolaid of your ideology. If you are conservative or Republican it is an insight into how we are viewed by religious zealots on the left. Take it as a work of bad fiction because it doesn’t tell the truth at all.
August 3rd, 2016
Follow the money. Jane Mayer exposes the way in which the 1% has hijacked the US political system. Well researched and rivetting.
January 10th, 2017
Thanks for this! Not that I downloaded it, as I definitely didn’t.
February 3rd, 2019
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February 3rd, 2019
https://politicalaudio.org/audio-books/democracy-in-chains-nancy-mclean/
February 26th, 2020
Thank you!
March 14th, 2021
@lakealex07
democrats and liberals are capitalist and conservative, and take dark money. nice try though.
June 5th, 2021
Can anyone seed this torrent? I can’t download
June 19th, 2021
thanks u/l, great work!
well researched, good book.
June 23rd, 2021
Right wing pigs don’t want to know the truth, but here it is. Soooowieee, pigpigpig!
August 27th, 2022
The content of the book is good, but the audio quality isn’t great. It’s tolerable but the poor quality is still very much noticeable.
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