It was repugnant the description of caucus growers by professor Steve Corbin in his Nov. 24 article “2024 caucus primary and general elections controlled by extremists” and his omission of the true source of election corruption “Dark Money” exemplified by the Associated Press story “Nikki Haley Wins Backing From Powerful Koch Networks.”

Professor Corbin generalized all caucus participants like my Democrat and Republican precinct held at Melbourne as “left-wing crazies and right-wing wackos.” I consider his analysis crazy and wacko!

The Koch empire is rabidly libertarian or anti government! It recoils at the psychology phrase in the U.S preamble “Promote the General Welfare” — the Social Contract between our government and its citizenry — for example, Social Security, Medicare and the Environmental Protection Agency.

Nikki is a willing fiddle to Dark Money and its deregulation onslaught by the Koch empire. If I was to run for public office, taking money from Koch would be a BETRAYAL of the Social Contract.

Dark money influences our academic institutions and decisions by some economic professors. We farm activists ran into that problem during the 1980’s Farm Crisis! Iowa State and Perdue ag-economists opposed parity price floors, supply management in the Harkin-Gephart Save the Family Farm Act.

In 1995 Iowa State economists supported the infamous HF519 law that allowed big agribusiness animal factory farming into Iowa! Thousands of family farmers lost their land in the 1980s due to willing academia and Dark Money interests, and tens of thousands were driven out of the livestock business in the 1990s.

The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), another libertarian anti-regulation organization, is corrupting every Republican state legislature in the country. It provides talking points to willing legislators who pay a fee to get on board. If Iowa folks wonder why nursing homes fail regulations, think ALEC. If you wonder why big hog gets a mere slap for polluting, think ALEC.

Libertarian anti-government and anti-regulation like Koch and his Americans for Prosperity think tank are the proverbial poison pill that destroys public confidence in our electoral system and destroys trust of government.

Dark Money has soiled the U.S. Supreme Court — think Justice Thomas and lower court decisions protecting anti-regulation giant corporate interests.

Shame on Nikki Haley and particularly shame on Professor Corbin for his glaring omissions concerning Dark Money intrusions into the political mechanics in this nation.

Remember deregulation allows monopolization and monopolists unabashedly raise consumer prices (INFLATION)!