Why the Evil Koch Bros. Must be Stopped: They Support Drug Legalization, Gay Marriage

[Galileo]

Why the Evil Koch Bros. Must be Stopped: They Support Drug Legalization, Gay Marriage, Reduced Defense Spending.


They are trying to:

1. decriminalize drugs,
2. legalize gay marriage,
3. repeal the Patriot Act,
4. end the police state,
5. cut defense spending.

Wikipedia shows Koch Family Foundations supporting causes like:

1. CATO Ins ute
2. Reason Foundation
3. cancer research
4. ballet

MORE:

http://reason.com/blog/2011/02/24/ev...h-bros-support

[Winehole23]

In the same post, Chait runs off a series of sums the Kochs have spent over the years on various right-wing causes. Curiously missing, however, is the $20 million donation the Kochs made to the ACLU to fight the Bush administration over the PATRIOT Act. Browsing various accounts of the Kochs political spending over the years, that $20 million appears to be substantially more than the Kochs have contributed to all political candidates combined for at least the last 15 years. (Their gifts to the arts and other non-political charities exceeds what they've spent on politics many times over.)

http://reason.com/blog/2011/02/25/th...s-right-wing-c

[Marcus Bryant]

http://reason.com/blog/2011/02/25/th...s-right-wing-c

It's not surprising that Chait omitted that. Since it was likely inconvenient for his meme, he left it out.

[boutons_deux]

Donating to ACLU doesn't mean the Kocks are civil libertarians or lefties or non-extreme right-wingers.

Kock Bros will spend wherever they think will protect or enhance their empire.

Anybody know specifically what in the Patriot Act the Kocks objected to?

[Marcus Bryant]

Obviously that it didn't go far enough and allow the VRWC to read our thoughts.

Tin foil check, croutons.

[boutons_deux]

The VRWC, corporate media division, dictates thoughts, no need for mind reading.

[Marcus Bryant]

Then how do we know you don't work for the VRWC?

[boutons_deux]

Dammit! MB, you've exposed me!

[Marcus Bryant]

It all makes sense now.

[The Reckoning]

1. CATO Ins ute

irony at its finest.

Cato the Elder was a Roman censor in the 2nd century bc who initiated staunch sumptuary legislation.

boomshakala


or could they be the next Grachhi?

[TeyshaBlue]

Dammit! MB, you've exposed me!

[baseline bum]

I never knew they fought Bush's worthless Patriot Act. Props to the Kochs for that, and thanks for sharing the info, WH.

[Nbadan]

Nice Mussolini made the trains run on time mentality.....Hitler funded the Opera too.

[baseline bum]

Hitler funded the arts because it was an enormous part of Nazi propaganda. It helped spread the delusion that the master race was the strongest and the most cultured. You'd go to the theater and hear brilliant renditions of Beethoven lead by legendary conductors like Furtwangler, and there would be Nazi flags prominently displayed all over the place to let you know who put on that great show.

[Nbadan]

If the Koch brother funded nothing but evil someone might see through to their heinous intent..so they throw some pocket change to legitimate causes and wing-nuts say...see the pig has lipstick on....

[boutons_deux]

I never knew they fought Bush's worthless Patriot Act. Props to the Kochs for that, and thanks for sharing the info, WH.

Only parts of the Patriot Act which put Kocks' imperial profits at risk.

[TeyshaBlue]

If the Koch brother funded nothing but evil someone might see through to their heinous intent..so they throw some pocket change to legitimate causes and wing-nuts say...see the pig has lipstick on....

Or it could be that the Koch brothers are a little more complex than your myopic world view will allow.

[coyotes_geek]

Or it could be that the Koch brothers are a little more complex than your myopic world view will allow.

Nonsense. You either wave the red team's pom-poms, or the blue team's. There can not be anything in between.

[Marcus Bryant]

Democrats/Left are communists.

Republicans/Right are fascists.

It's little wonder this country is ed given these moronic assumptions undergird a majority of what is put forth as political discourse these days.

[boutons_deux]

"Republicans/Right are fascists."

this definition pegs the UCA as controlled by the VRWC and their Repug attack dogs, abetted by the passivity and lessness of the Dems in the face of the Repug attack

Fascists seek to organize a nation according to corporatist perspectives, values, and systems, including the political system and the economy

Scholars generally consider fascism to be on the far right.[8][9][10][11][12] Confusion over whether fascism is of the left or right is due to the inability to fit the economic policies into a clear-cut category, because while fascism is considered on the right politically, fascist economic controls were left-wing, though ended up benefiting social groups considered to be supportive of right-wing parties

Fascists believe that a nation is an organic community that requires strong leadership, singular collective iden y, and the will and ability to commit violence and wage war in order to keep the nation strong.[14] They claim that culture is created by the collective national society and its state, that cultural ideas are what give individuals iden y, and thus they reject individualism.[14] Viewing the nation as an integrated collective community, they see pluralism as a dysfunctional aspect of society, and justify a totalitarian state as a means to represent the nation in its entirety.[15][16] Fascists advocate the creation of a single-party state.[17] Fascist governments forbid and suppress opposition to the fascist state and the fascist movement

Idolization and exaltation of violence, war, and militarism are central components of fascism, which fascists see as providing positive transformation in society, in providing spiritual renovation, education, instilling of a will to dominate in people's character, and creating national comradeship through the military service.[19] Fascists view violence and war as actions that create national regeneration, spirit and vitality

Fascists oppose liberalism (as a bourgeois movement) and Marxism (as a proletarian movement) for being exclusive economic class-based movements.[22] Fascists present their ideology as that of an economically trans-class movement that promotes ending economic class conflict to secure national solidarity.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism

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Not a perfect match, but close enough, esp the conflation of govt and corporate action.

Certainly, the Repugs talk about and strive to eliminate all opposition to establish a single party, Permanent Republican Majority.

And the unnecessary Repug Gulf War sacrificed a couple 100K Iraqis soldiers and 140 US soldiers so the Repugs could get their war-mongering, murderous, Authoritarian Empire dreams under way.

[Marcus Bryant]

I rest my case.

[TeyshaBlue]

Indeed.

[boutons_deux]

Repug - Dem equivalence is a VRWC lie.

[coyotes_geek]

democrats = republicans

[TeyshaBlue]

You lie!