How the Koch brothers and the super-rich are buying their way out of criticism

Re:How the Koch brothers and the super-rich are buying their... by _delirium on Tuesday October 06, 2015 @03:21AM (#10337194)

I'm not sure it makes a difference either way when it comes to the influence of money on institutions (influence from non-politicians is not necessarily any less corrupting), but: I think it would be hard to consider the Kochs to not be politicians, anyway. They're heavily involved in party politics and electioneering, both in internal party politics and in general elections. And David Koch has even run as a candidate for national office himself (he was the vice-presidential nominee on the 1980 Libertarian Party ticket, before leaving them for the GOP).

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Re:How the Koch brothers and the super-rich are buying their... by deciplex on Tuesday October 06, 2015 @03:26AM (#10337220)

Yeah, they're politicians for sure, they're just in it to actually affect policy in their favor rather than as an ego trip or whatever other petty reasons people usually get into politics. And, they've figured out that directly running for office is sort of a waste of time in that regard, in America.

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Re:How the Koch brothers and the super-rich are buying their... by chefkoch on Tuesday October 06, 2015 @05:12AM (#10337586)

I rather think they figured that they can't run for every office they can buy.

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