The “robber barons” are their heroes and their dream is a return to the Gilded Age.
Labeling this “freedom” is a pretty cute bit of rhetorical gymnastics.
The “robber barons” are their heroes and their dream is a return to the Gilded Age.
Labeling this “freedom” is a pretty cute bit of rhetorical gymnastics.
Jane Mayer’s recent work is recommended reading on this subject: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0385535597
Or if you want something shorter, from a few years ago, http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2010/08/30/covert-operatio...
You may want to study property rights (protection from pollution) and freedom of speech (publishing studies).
I don't know about the Koch bros, but libertarians are the most anti-corporate people you can find, precisely because government and corporations collude to destroy individual rights and freedom.
You may want to stop reading your lefty media if you are to retain any intellectual capacity.
They'll push for repealing environmental protection laws, but not for the tort laws that reduce their liability for polluting. They'll push for repealing regulations that are advantageous for unions, but not "Right to Work" laws that prevent unions and businesses from forming contracts requiring all laborers to be part of the union.