I Take My Tea with Money

The Koch brothers, widely credited with co-opting the Tea Party Movement that has swept extremist fiscal conservatives across the nation, may not hold office, but they are certainly able to decide who does. With a multi-billion dollar family fortune, Charles and David Koch have amassed both extravagant fortunes as well as immutable political influence.

By completely legal means, attributable to blatant deficiencies in campaign finance regulations, the brothers serve the same capacity as a large special interest. Just as increases in the economic strength of the burgeoning industrialist class of seventeenth century England led to a more pluralistic political institution, great concentrations of wealth also leads to the augmentation of individuals' political capital.