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Joe Murphy  🇺🇸🇺🇦🇮🇪☘️☘️☘️☘️☘️☘️ Profile picture
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Jan 19, 2023 • 15 tweets • 17 min read • Read on X
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4 Decades of Koch network libertarianism has all but destroyed the working/middle class while the top 1% became morbidly richer
And they have already succeeded in bringing us back to the days of the robber barons
#ResistanceUnited #wtpBLUE #DemCast #DemVoice1 #ProudBlue
Under Democrats, New Deal economic equality created a growing economy
America was never more prosperous & the working/middle class flourished. Businesses created new products & and wages grew with the economy
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Eisenhower called out the Billionaire's as being negligible in numbers and stupid
But the Koch brothers had already formulated their plan to destroy the new deal economy and replace it with unrestricted capitalism
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Billionaires, viewed a strong working/middle class as a threat to their profits
To them the working/middle class was too uppity and how dare we the little people hold them accountable for Taxes/SS benefits/Antitrust
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The art of Koch networks misleading messaging came to fruition under Goldwater
They not only promoted “Greed is Good” but packaged it up in the pursuit of liberty. A false premise that all Republicans use to this day
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Selling the Koch agenda which is to remove
all regulation from the government,
abandonment of the IRS and Income Tax,
abolishing the EPA, FBI
and all antitrust enforcement
Only benefits 1% of our population
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In Reagan Koch libertarians found their man
In 1981, Ronald Reagan was sworn in and implicitly promised to destroy our government because it was the problem, and the Koch network has spent billions to make it happen
#ResistanceUnited #wtpBLUE #DemCast #DemVoice1 #ProudBlue
GOP lawmakers are paid well by the #KochNetwork
Every elected Republican accepts Koch dark money
And do their damndest to wreck our Govt,
only to turn around and claim Govt is broken and only they can fix it!!
#ResistanceUnited #wtpBLUE #DemCast #DemVoice1 #ProudBlue
Disguising their true agenda is paramount to the #KochNetwork success

as an example
How in the world does having a gas stove have anything to do with Liberty?
Yet that is what they are selling
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The coalition of hate is necessary and targeting low intelligence voters completes their Authoritarian regime agenda
Its the Christian Nationalist/Nazi/2A circle of hate
and is as bad as it sounds
#ResistanceUnited #wtpBLUE #DemCast #DemVoice1 #ProudBlue
Special thanks to Thom Hartman and the memes used in this thread are almost 100% his words, give Thom a follow @Thom_Hartmann
hartmannreport.com/p/the-reagan-r…
For another excellent resource on the effective of the Christian nationalist movement efforts to destroy democracy read @JYSexton
Examples of Christian nationalists propaganda to sabotage our Public Education from @RightWingWatch

For another excellent resource on the effective of the Christian nationalist movement efforts to destroy democracy read @JYSexton
Examples of Christian nationalists propaganda to sabotage our Public Education from @RightWingWatch

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