The Freedom School: "We're not anarchists, we're autarchists" - yeah okay pal

This book I'm reading, Dark Money, is pretty disturbing. I'm not even halfway through and I can't tell if I'm supposed to laugh or cry. Do I continue to believe in humanity, or make a hermit plan and escape society? I'm gonna' stick around, but, dang humanity. Do better.

This book starts off with some history on the Koch family and about libertarian movement. I always fancied libertarians as harmless. Just some sweet little anarchists that want to smoke pot and get a prostitute legally. Nah, I was wrong. They aren't harmless. The ones in charge are dangerous and they are very, very smart.

And of course some are crazy af. Like this Santa Claus-looking dude Robert LeFevre that created a fringe group called the Freedom School in 1957. LeFevre hated Communism. Simultaneously, he favored abolition of the United States government. He also thought he had supernatural powers, floundered into bankruptcy, and was obsessed with a 14 year old girl. 

Listen to the crap this Freedom School belched out into the world of ideas (real shit ideas, I might add):

• Taught a revisionist history that painted robber barons as heroes and the Gilded Age as the U.S.'s golden era.
• Taxes were theft.
• The weak and poor should be taken care of by the wealthy, not by government.
• The South should have been allowed to secede and people "should be allowed to sell themselves into slavery if they wished." (No, I'm not making this up.)

It's no surprise a group of teachers that went to the Freedom School for a session immediately called the FBI after they returned. The teachers said the school was proposing the Bill of Rights be reduced to "just a single one: the right to own property" and calling for no police, no fire, no help for the poor, etc.

While, this LeFevre freak clearly should not have been an inspiration to any-damn-body, the book says that the Freedom School was "seminal to Charles Koch's political evolution."

Welp...