The Koch Brothers exert a web of influence over the government. . These groups like Americans For Prosperity (AFP) saturate the airwaves with lies and misleading ads.
The liberal blogosphere has been pushing back very hard on the Koch Brothers. For the most part, the traditional media has ignored their corrosive influence on the body politic. That seemed like a status quo the Koch Brothers were happy to live with.
How would one force out a rat that is comfortably hidden in plain view? You ensure that an overwhelmingly bright light is shined on it for all to see. That is what Senator Harry Reid did a few weeks ago. He slammed the Koch brothers on the Senate floor.
Senator Harry Reid is a smart man. Harry Reid knows that the Koch Brothers are unknown to most Americans. He knew that he needed to elevate the story. He also needed to use the power of his office and position to buttress all of the left wing blogosphere that had already called out the web of companies doing the Koch Brother’s dirty work.
Success arrived. Charles Coke just could not take it anymore. He wrote an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal presumptuously titled “Charles Koch: I’m Fighting to Restore a Free Society.” Anyone in the know likely lost their composure after reading the op-ed.
After reading I was compelled to write the following.
After reading the piece one wonders if Charles Koch is living in the reality based world. One wonders if he has begun to believe the lies that his several funded PACs put out to deceive the American population. In that light; here are a few glaring statements that should be rebutted.
The central belief and fatal conceit of the current administration is that you are incapable of running your own life, but those in power are capable of running it for you. This is the essence of big government and collectivism.
… Collectivists (those who stand for government control of the means of production and how people live their lives) promise heaven but deliver hell. For them, the promised end justifies the means.
This is an interesting attack on the Obama administration. While he correctly defines collectivism, there is no instance in which the Obama administration has entered the realm of means of production. What the administration did as a continuation of the Bush administration is used taxpayer resources to save the plutocracy. The Obama administration ensured that those who almost destroyed the world’s economy were able to maintain their position and status. The administration ensured that major corporations like GM did not fail. Their analysis was to tolerate some malfeasance for the better good of the status quo economy.
Had the administration done the absolute right thing, it would have allowed the market to penalize those that destroyed it. At that point the recovery would have been benign collectivism brought on by the failure of a failed plutocratic regime.
Charles Koch shows that no amount of money can elicit a cohesive message when ones message is demonstratively anathema to the vast majority of Americans. He is against the minimum wage. He is anti-regulations. He is anti-Obamacare. He implies each of those tenets is anti-freedom.
Ironically, it is fact that if you make more you have more. It is fact that absent regulations corporations including his own pollute the environment and are unfair to employees for profit maximization. It is fact that millions of Americans are better off with the security, financial and health-wise, provided by Obamacare. No amount of Charles Koch bloviating will change that.
Harry Reid is defining the Koch Brothers as he should.
Why did Michael Koch allow Harry Reid to force him out in the open? He understands politics. Harry Reid is in the process of defining the Koch Brothers to all the Americans who know nothing about them, let alone their perpetrated evil. Unfortunately for Michael Koch’s lament and rebuttal in the Wall Street journal, it will become the framing document by which he will be justifiably caricatured.
The Koch Brothers better be careful. There are already organizations working on identifying their companies and boycotting them. The continued success of their empire may be inversely proportional to the new notoriety that Harry Reid will continue to give him.
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