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The Koch brothers, who describe themselves as libertarians uninterested in social conservatives’ culture wars, are more than willing to use Christian Right voters as well as mountains of cash to achieve their anti-government, anti-union ends. politicalresearch.org/tag/koch-broth…
Their efforts have been buttressed by the parallel rise and spread of dominionist theology, grounded in Christian Reconstructionist ideology that unrestricted free-market capitalism is -
mandated by the Bible and that God grants no role for the government in education or care for the poor. This ideology provided fertile ground for the anti-government zealotry of the Tea Party and the belief that a radically limited role for -
for the federal government is not only a constitutional mandate but also a biblical one. Any long-term strategy for rebuilding progressive political power and reclaiming the legacy of the New Deal must -
grapple with the realities and motivating power of these intertwined economic, ideological and religious ideologies.
A right-wing organizations that formed in the wake of President Barack Obama’s election is the Freedom Federation, a coalition of Christian Right political groups and dominionist “apostolic” ministries and organizations.
Tucked among them is the Koch-funded Americans for Prosperity (AFP), which preaches a small-government gospel.The presence of AFP may explain why the coalition’s founding “Declaration of American Values” included,-
in addition to predictably conservative positions on social issues, opposition to progressive taxation.
