Bill, Pavlov’s dogs is an apt analogy. The Beltway “libertarian” institutions are on the leash of the Wichita oil plutocrats, Charles and David Koch. These men have for decades personally hated Rothbard and Rothbardianism, with a purple passion. It is the Rothbardian populist, anti-Fed, Austrian, pro-peace elements of the Ron Paul and tea party movements that set them howling. The Kochs are also political fixers–the largest informal and formal donors to Republicanism in the country, as Greg Palast has shown. They hate Ron Paul and Ron Paulism for the same reason the rest of the Republican power elite does: they … Continue reading Follow the Money