KOCH BROTHERS ARE GUILTY

The duplicity of the Koch brothers is unbelievable. They sent a letter to the US. Senate claiming their company was not involved in trying to shut down the government over Obamacare. That is a blatant lie and everyone knows it or at least should know it. Even if we put their statement in the category of self-deception, it goes beyond belief that anyone could deceive them selves to that extent. They have put about a quarter of a billion dollars into trying to destroy the government of the United States. They have funded corruption of democracy in almost every political race in the country. The average person has no real concept or feeling of how much money they have spent in spreading their hate—the amount of money involved is enormous.

Suddenly, they claim that they did not do what we all know they did. Do they expect the American people to think that they finally realize they killed the goose that laid “their” golden egg?  Do you think they suddenly changed course? Do you think the finally understand what Senator Elizabeth Warren was telling them that they did not build Koch industries by them selves?  To believe that would be the height of foolishness. It would be dangerous.

They grew up in the toxic environment of the John Burch society; an organization supported by their father. Their chemical engineering father used anti-communism as a focus to build a burning hate in support of an extreme right wing ideology. They supported anticommunism in whatever form they found it—real or fanciful. They used the popularity of this polar opposition to personal freedom as a cover to try to establish a constitutional republic. In other words, they based their interpretation of the U.S. Constitution on a simplistic word for word interpretation, which is why we have such radical Justices as Roberts, Scalia, Alito, and Thomas. It is why we have guns on the streets of America, which is why we have voter suppression and regression in racial segregation, and why these brothers can treat “their” billions in dollars in a manner equivalent to “your” words.  

The biggest theme of the John Birch Society was limited government, which is exactly why we are having such a disconnection between reality and desire in Washington today. The people want the environment to be protected but do not want the EPA, they want Wall Street to be regulated but do not what the FCC; the foolishness goes on and on, which culminates in Grover Norquist’s no more taxes; we want everything but do not want to pay for it. To limit the “size” of their tax burden was the objective of all that money they spent while at the same time they want a large government to help them make their billions—to do what they want it to do, which takes us full circle back to Elizabeth Warren.

The Koch brothers are innately greedy but also ideologues: a dangerous combination. To trust them would be like trying to domesticate a rattlesnake. Anyone who has ever seen the tracts a sidewinder makes in dessert sand will understand, if you look too closely it would be misleading; you have to step back and look to tell where they are really going. 

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