Koch Corporate Capitalism & The Tea Party:

The Koch brothers have been trying to indoctrinate their employees with Libertarian ideology and coercing them to vote for reactionary candidates since October of last year. Story below.

http://www.democracynow.org/2011/4/21/thought_control_right_wing_koch_brothers

This is a glaring example of how capitalism and democracy are utterly incompatible. If an employer can force employees to vote in accordance with their interests, what that basically means is that in addition to providing millions of dollars in campaign financing for their preffered stooges, like George Walker, they can also provide them with thousands of obedient and servile voters as well.

Bladridigan wrote:This is a glaring example of how capitalism and democracy are utterly incompatible. If an employer can force employees to vote in accordance with their interests, what that basically means is that in addition to providing millions of dollars in campaign financing for their preffered stooges, like George Walker, they can also provide them with thousands of obedient and servile voters as well.

Absolutely. You see the same phenomenon in the Third World, where large landowners tells their serfs and tenant farmers which candidates to vote for. Capitalism and democracy are incompatible at other levels as well. The compromise between the two that occurs is a sham democracy with sham rights, where one can vote for indistinguishable candidates none of whom will upset the economic, imperial, or militaristic status quo. The class structure remains inviolate.