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Maybe they should. Is this actually true or just an assumption? It seems like for every Koch there is a Soros.
by beaner 8y ago
Maybe they should. Is this actually true or just an assumption? It seems like for every Koch there is a Soros.
- diogenescynic 8y agoQuit spreading right wing propaganda and talking points here. Hacker News isn’t for political discussion and you’re just making a false equivalency and repeating Fox News lines (college students all think the same!) The right wing donors like Koch brothers and Sheldon Adelson far outspend the left and have organizations like ALEC to which there is no left wing equivalent. Data is here so you don’t have to make shit up: https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2017/03/richest-billionaires-are-top-political-spenders/ https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2017/03/richest-billionaire... >According to Open Secrets, Republicans had a larger share of the billionaires -- and their contributions to outside spending groups -- in the 2012 election cycle. Among the top 100 donors in the Open Secrets list, 33 were billionaires, and of those, 14 gave primarily to liberal groups while 19 gave to conservative groups. >In addition, the top 100 donors of 2012 gave 41 percent of all the money collected by outside spending groups, and of their donations, 71 percent went to conservative groups. From: https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2014/jun/23/do-many-billionaires-support-democratic-party/ https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2014/jun/23... Another relevant source: https://billmoyers.com/2014/04/10/nothing-really-compares-to-the-koch-brothers-political-empire/ https://billmoyers.com/2014/04/10/nothing-really-compares-to... You can read Dark Money by Jane Meyer if you are actually interested in this.