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Most Valuable Book of 2017 Frank Kashner Apprentice Motion Picture Film Editor - IASTE General Electric Machinist / IUE Local 201 Software Engineering Organizations Social Worker schools & office SEIU 509

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“Most Valuable Book of 2017”

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Frank Kashner

  • Apprentice Motion Picture Film Editor - IASTE
  • General Electric Machinist / IUE Local 201
  • Software Engineering Organizations
  • Social Worker – schools & office – SEIU 509
  • Un-Chain Democracy UnChainDemocracy.org
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Take me back to old Virginia

For some of wealth & power, the problem is that we are no longer like 19th-century Virginia when – Wealthy white men controlled government – Taxes were minimal – The Federal government did not interfere

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John C. Calhoun ~1860 Majority based government ... “was sure to filch other men’s property and violate their liberty.”

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1956 Brown v. Board of Education

A great step forward or a violation?

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1964 War on Poverty

Progress or a vast overreach?

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David Koch for Vice President

  • 1980 Libertarian party vote = ~1%
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David Koch for VP - Abolish

  • Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid
  • Environmental Protection Agency
  • Depts of Transportation, Energy
  • Food & Drug Administration
  • Consumer Product Safety
  • Federal Election Commission
  • U.S. Postal Service
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Repeal

  • Occupational Safety & Health aka OSHA
  • Minimum Wage
  • Compulsory Education
  • All Taxation
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Privatize & End Oversight of All

  • Railroads
  • Public Roads
  • National Highway System
  • Inland Waterways
  • Water Distribution Systems
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End All Welfare

  • Only voluntary efforts are proper
  • Hunger, poverty, homelessness, illness, and

illiteracy? Too bad!

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Drown Government in the bathtub

“I just want to shrink it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub”

Grover Norquist

They see capitalism and democracy

  • as incompatible !!
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Transform ideas into action & law

∙ Koch ~ $100 billion ∙ Strongly held beliefs ∙ Superb organizational skills ∙ Exploit Citizens’ United via Dark Money ∙ A huge patronage organization ∙ A legal revolution against US

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What the Koch network does

  • Operate secretly, hide true goals
  • Use universities & media to propagate ideas
  • Turn the GOP into a disciplined delivery vehicle
  • Use primary challenges to enforce compliance
  • Change the law, the judiciary, push for Article V
  • Get control of a majority of states, use X Feds
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What the Koch Network Does

  • Constrict the electorate, gerrymander, suppress
  • Cultivate allies – Council for National Policy

evangelical right, gun, racist, misogynist, xenophobic

  • Misinform, use I360 data targeting on social

media, fake news, coordinated messaging (Fox) and legislation (ALEC)

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Koch Network: A Secret Oligarchy

>500 donors pay at least $100K / year

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Kochs = $$ CNP = Voters

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Council for National Poicy - CNP

  • Authoritarian “Christian” principles
  • Strict constructionist view of US Constitution
  • Minority rule is necessary to win
  • “Not Voting is a Sin Against God”
  • 38,000 Pastors - Watchmen on the Wall - Get out

the fundamentalist vote

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16 Cabinet Secretaries

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70% of WH Senior Officials

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After 40 years of effort they control

Legislatures, Judiciary, Executive-Federal & State

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23 Senate seats

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INDIVISIBLE Payback Project

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Questions

  • What is the best use of our time?
  • Koch / CNP coordination – us?
  • A mass movement – how?
  • DNC vs Bernie?
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What can we do?

  • Elections, elections, elections
  • Swing Left, Indivisible, Action Together NS
  • UnChainDemocracy.org
  • Is our house on fire?
  • Nancy speaks @ Salem State on 3/5
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UnChainDemocracy.org

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Many Groups are doing Excellent Work - Countering the Koch Network

Here are screen shots of their websites

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Christians against Dark Money

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A Research Repository

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Voting Rights

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Is there “Democratic Party Loyalty”? - Truthdig 1/22/2020

  • Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said recently, “We

don’t have a left party in the United States. The Democratic Party is a center, or center-conservative, party.” Question: How can we be most effective as Democrats while having a conservative Democratic Party Leadership that also trades access for campaign contributions?