| How the Koch brothers, Sheldon Adelson, Sam Walton, Bill Gates and other billionaires are undermining America.The Koch brothers are only the most conspicuous among a whole tribe of "self-made" billionaires who imagine themselves architects or master builders of a revamped, rehabilitated America. The resurgence of what might be called dynastic or family capitalism, as opposed to the more impersonal managerial capitalism many of us grew up with, is changing the nation's political chemistry. Our own masters of the universe, like the "robber barons" of old, are inordinately impressed with their ascendancy to the summit of economic power.There is no Tycoon Party in the US imposing ideological uniformity on a group of billionaires who, march to their own drummers and differ on many matters. But all of them subscribe to one thing: a belief in their own omniscience and irresistible will. |
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