Tag Archives: the 1%

Battle of the billionaire titans

One email response to my recent column lamenting our democracy morphing into oligarchy (plutocracy, corporatocracy, what have you) went, more or less: Hey Mr. leftwing columnist, how come you’re complaining about Koch brothers money playing a role in government? There are plenty of rich progressives throwing their money’s weight around. What about them, hunh? And […]

Money versus votes

I wonder how many of our votes the Koch brothers and friends could buy directly, by offering, say, $1000 paid directly to voters for switching our votes in the midterm election? What would it take? $100? Maybe they don’t have to spend that much. I must say I find it depressing news that we are […]