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Category Archives: Tea Party
KOCH Brothers hold Private Party for the Rich and the Right
Koch Bros’ Double Triple Ultra Secret Meeting of 300 Right Wing Donors
While we were all sleeping through June, dreaming the idea of democracy, the Koch brothers were busy on the podium of their biannual gathering to marshall the libertarian financiers who intend to determine the fate of the upcoming 2012 national election. That election, in brother Charles Koch’s opening remarks at the conference, will be “the mother of all wars” and, in a rousing emotional appeal for “partners” in the fight, Charles listed 32 donors who have come forward to commit at least $ 1 million each to the fight “for the life or death of this country.” That is, the Americans for Prosperity model of the life of this country. Americans for Prosperity, the Koch-funded “grass roots” group that is supporting the efforts of the Tea Party.
Americans for Prosperity was founded by David Koch, the other brother. Most Tea Party members think that they are a part of an anti-establishment movement to reclaim the American way. The irony that this entire effort is funded by many of the nation’s billionaires — certainly the most wealthy citizens of the U.S.– gives me pause. When will the Tea Party figure out the game? They are simply pawns of the greater scheme that began long before there was a Tea Party to join. Undoubtably a similar “initiative” to those resulting in what Charles Koch refers to as outcomes at the most recent conference.
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When the Fringe Becomes the Fur: Dominionism and Politics
The Right Wing Envelops Us as We Sleep
In the late 1990’s, as I researched my Ph.D. dissertation, Sexes, Gods, and Southern Christians, I came across a group that was unfamiliar to me in name only. As a minister’s daughter from the Bible belt of Texas, I chose the topic of religion and the right wing in an attempt to understand my own confusing upbringing involving the intersection between professions of faith that swam around us and the pervasive behaviors of racism, discrimination and the male fascination with guns and domination of women’s bodies.
My departure from Texas was immediate upon high school graduation. I left the state for college and never looked back. I often quipped that “I left Texas to escape the Christians.” Ironically, I later found myself in Colorado Springs during the influx of the very Christians I had once left behind. Moreover, having established one of the largest relocation companies in Southern Colorado, our task became one of assisting with the movement into the city of various organizations, including the International Bible Society, Christian & Missionary Alliance, and numerous small organizations that followed. My interface with James Dobson and Focus on the Family is the topic of another installment on this blog titled “Oh, James, We Hardly Know Ye.” The experiences of those years once again baptized me into the thought system that left me spinning with the paradox it contained.
As the landscape of religion, culture, and politics in Colorado Springs began to shift like a tidal wave, we sold our companies and moved to California, where I entered graduate work in psychology, cultural mythology and religion — specializing in the intersection between the Christian Conservative movements and their impact on politics, culture and law in our country.
Seven years of graduate school led to my dissertation, where I focused on exposing the revisions of the Biblical stories and theological philosophy in order to foster dominion– specifically over women and children. During the journey toward completion of the work, the path led to a movement that was founded in the heart of my homeland, Waco, Texas. That Dominionist group was called Christian Reconstructionism.
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