Last week, Politico got its hands on a secret Koch brothers memo to their donors about their plot to expand into new states, recruit new donors, and continue to co-opt the Republican Party — and its presidential field — as the 2016 cycle gets underway.The secret memo the Kochs never wanted us to see gives the 2016 GOP wannabes a roadmap of Koch priorities that will help in their audition for Koch cash: repealing federal support for wind energy, eliminating estate taxes that largely benefit the very wealthy, defunding the EPA, all in service of their bottom line. The Kochs’ priorities, however, would be disastrous for the American people.

In the memo, the Kochs go even farther, taking a page from Mitt Romney’s “47 percent” playbook and appallingly putting blame on social welfare programs for sustained poverty. “The irony is maddening. America’s poor have been shackled by decades of progressive policy, from welfare-induced dependency to job killing taxes and regulations that limit their opportunity to climb the economic ladder.” This sounds directly in line with some other longstanding and well known Koch priorities, like voucherizing medicare, repealing the minimum wage, and dismantling social security. The 1980 David Koch-Ed Clark campaign called Social Security “The most serious threat to the future stability of our society next to the threat of nuclear war.”

In this suck-up campaign, the GOP is competing for who can best serve the Koch’s bottom line, not the best interests of Americans. Expect to see the candidates continue to support dismantling programs that protect the middle class just so they can protect the Koch’s fortune.