WHO IS REALLY TAKING THE COUNTRY?

The Teapartiers mantra is 'Take back our country'.  Just who has taken over our democratic country has been a question that is not unsolved, just not declared openly.  A recent article by Nathan Diebenow announces that Progressives are ready to 'uncloak' the secret financers behind the Tea party. "The Sunday, Jan. 30 event thrown by Common Cause, a nonpartisan, grassroots organization, aims to educate attendees in California to the Koch brothers who will be strategizing nearby with their mega-wealthy allies to win the 2012 elections."

The Tea Party is financed far beyond the many small contributions most of the Teapartiers themselves can give.  If has long been rumored that the multi-billionaire Koch  brothers are the 'angels' behind it all. Now, assuming that might be true, the next question must be, "Why?"  What is in it for them?  Certainly they need no more money, though money is clearly power.  Thus, is it power they are after?  If so what is the power they desire?  The Tea Party wants to 'take back the government'.  I was always taught that plotting to overthrow the government is an act of treason.  Are the Koch brothers, then, treason perpetrators?


Also from the article:  "Comedian Bill Maher on Friday lashed out at the followers of the Tea party movement whose activities are funded by Koch's Americans for Prosperity group.
"The Founding Fathers were everything you despise. They studied science, read Plato, hung out in Paris, and thought the Bible was mostly bullshit," he said.

'Who' is never enough.  We need also to understand the 'why'. It is the only way to protect ourselves. Had we appreciated that bin Laden was not only interested in violence and killing but, rather, to economically disable our country, we might not be in the economic mess we are in today.