rmontero The Tea Party as should be known by now is funded heavily by Koch Industries, it doesn’t surprise me, nor should it surprise anyone that the Tea Party is corporate funded, it shouldn’t surprise anyone because everything they fight for happens to be in the corporate interests and against the interest of the working class and middle class and the general welfare, whenever you have a group that consistently fights for things that happen to be the same things corporations want, follow the money.
Here’s what did surprise me somewhat, William F. Buckley, yes William F. Buckley, the laissez-faire capitalism, anti-communist conservative centerpiece for decades called the Koch brothers ideology Anarcho-Totalitarianism, these guys, who fund a movement that now has a caucus in congress, were too radical even for William Buckley. But also interesting is what he called them, Anarcho-Totalitarianism, because that’s probably the best way to describe the sort of society the ultra right want. Anarcho part refers to their hatred of any government (except war and getting in the bedroom of coarse), but really Anarchism isn’t the right word for it, because traditionally Anarchism is an opposition to all forms of authority, be it private or public, government or corporate, what they REALLY are opposed to is democracy, so we’ll leave anarcho in there because they claim to be anti government. The totalitarian part of it has to do with what their dream will ultimately be, a corporate tyranny, William Buckley understood, despite his ideology, the nature of power, be it governmental or corporate, people WITH power want more power. The corporation is structured exactly like a totalitarian government, elections reduced to rubber stamping executive choices, workers having almost no say over what they do or what the company does, a huge chain of command, and so on and so forth, so what happens when you allow theses private tyrannies to control more, they WILL control more, in fact they are required too, their mandate is maximum profits, they will exploit workers more and more, they will collapse the economy, they WILL buy the government or become the government.
The tea party is the extreme right, they are not for freedom, they are not for liberty, any more than someone wanting to take constitutional restraints on a monarchs power in a constitutional monarchy is for “liberty,” the libertarian ideology, is based on the concept that democracy is bad and that the market is infallible, because of that libertarians take all the failures of capitalism and try and blame it on personality flaws, which is why they try and call poor people lazy, the unemployed and irresponsible, what they don’t understand is that 1% control more wealth than the bottom 90%, that’s hardly a free market, its free for the 1% yeah, but the 90% have to just fight for what they can get from the 1%, its a tyranny, made up of private tyrannies (corporations), if you think capitalism is free, as a Bangladeshi, Central American or Chinese sweat shop worker, whose place of living is chosen by the employer, who works 12 hours a day to survive, ask them if capitalism is free, if corporations (who they cannot vote for) are better than governments (who they can vote for).
The point is Libertarianism, and the Tea Party ideology needs to be called out for what it is, Corporatism, anarcho-totalitarianism, and private tyranny, its not freedom, its not liberty, at least not for 90% of the population.
