Discussion: Charles Koch: We're Like The Civil Rights Movement

[system1]

Discussion for article #239012

[artemisia]

What you are are fraudsters, rip off artists, and haters of democracy. Stop deluding yourselves and realize that you take the bread out of people’s mouths and hoard it all for yourself. At the same time, you’re busy condemning billions of people to death through climate change, poverty, starvation and toxic environments.

[marby]

It is utterly amazing that he could say that with a straight face - as he and his brother bankroll politicians who strive to eliminate the right to vote, get a public education, receive healthcare, or work for anything but slave-level wages.

[clunkertruck]

No Charles – It’s more like the inquisition —

[mantan]

aims to spend $889 million… to demonstrate that a free society gives them the best opportunity

What a load. A “free society” doesn’t need fascist PR, they self advertise…that beacon on a hill thing.

[theghostofeustacetilley]

WhY WON’t YOU UNIte BEhINd the VISION? CHriST. We’re DONE for.

[rudesan]

Wondering if Charles has ever marched anywhere or even seen the inside of a bus.

[leeks]

Did you know the “up” is “down,” “black” is “white,” “hot” is “cold” and “Koch” is “honest.”

[ralph_vonholst]

I don’t wish death on anyone, but if by some chance, there is a God, and he should call these two miscreants unto “Abraham’s bossom”, I will not necessarily repent of my non-belief, but I will at least give the “Non Nobis” another read over.

[clauscph]

All of these struck a moral chord with the American people. They all sought to overcome an injustice. And we, too, are seeking to right injustices that are holding our country back.”

I wonder what ‘moral chord’ mr. Koch thinks he can hit with the American people.

Paying tax is not an injustice…

[anniew]

@ClausCPH

Paying tax is not an injustice…

But look at the suffering it has called this multi-billionaire. It caused him to…well, it caused him to obsess over how much more he might have had. Being in the top 10 of the welathiest men alive sucks, he wants to be #1, otherwise he is the real victim here.

[midnight_rambler]

TPM actually left out the best bit from the WaPo article - he also called on businesses to reject corporate welfare. You can’t make this shit up.

[manhattan123]

Those movements “struck a moral chord with the American people” because they were fighting for the weak, the disenfranchised, the under represented - not for a bunch of fat cat billionaire assholes looking to weaken labor and environmental laws and further pad the pockets of the already obscenely wealthy.

For all their money, the Koch brothers sure can’t seem to buy a clue.

[mlbx2]

Wow. The ultra rich are different. As in delusional…

[darcy]

"And we, too, are seeking to right injustices that are holding our country back.”

I wish he would explain exactly what “holding our country back” means.

[chuck_voellinger]

Because being a millionaire is EXACTLY LIKE not being able to vote and apartheid. More faux White suffering.

[becca656]

"If we cannot unite the majority of Americans behind the vision, then we’re done for,” Koch said. “So that, to me, has to be our number one objective. But to do so, we’ve got to do a much better job of understanding what matters most to people and then to demonstrate that a free society gives them the best opportunity of achieving that.”

OK, let’s see what matters most to people:

Equal access to vote
Equal access to a living wage
Equal access to proper medical care
Equal access to full education

What doesn’t matter at all to people:

Continued unfounded attacks on Planned Parenthood
Continued attempts to overturn the Affordable Care Act
Continued attempts to remove citizens from the voting rolls
Continued massive income equality
Continued manufactured outrage against the President of the US, including birther, race and other claims

I bet posters here could add to either category.

[anniew]

@Darcy

I wish he would explain exactly what “holding our country back” means.

Well, his companies are being held back. No strip mining in some places, all those pesky environmental regs, there are national parks (socialism!!!) that aren’t accessible to them to make even more money from…

[burningquestions]

If they actually thought that they were part of the Civil Rights movement, they would have denounced their father for being part of the John Birch society which opposed Civil Rights and wouldn’t have invited Charles Murray to make remarks at one of their dinners when he was one of the authors of a book that claimed Blacks and Hispanics were dumber than Whites and Asians.

[dswx]

“Essentially, 1, anything that prevents me from greater wealth, 2, anything that helps the middle class or the poor, and 3, there is a black man in the White House!”