The Koch brothers spent about a million bucks to buy three Supreme Court seats in Tennessee. They failed, but not by much. And they're raring to go again.
This is the result of the U.S. Supreme Court's inane rulings that corporations are people and speech is money. The Kochs failed this time, but it's just a matter of time before they and their ilk control the entire judiciary with their millions of dollars.
The Koch's front operation, Americans for Prosperity, is trying to buy elections across the country, from seats in state legislatures from Alaska to Florida, to a levy for the Columbus zoo, to city council races in Iowa. They are trying to stage a corporate takeover of the United States of America.
Thankfully voters in Tennessee saw through this. But only because opponents were able to spend enough money to counter Koch lies.
It's appalling that the conservative members of the Supreme Court are so blinded by their ambition to force their conservative ideology on the country that they are allowing corporations gain control of every facet of government, from the legislatures (with ALEC), to the executive branch and their stranglehold on regulation, and now the judiciary.
The Supreme Court's decisions are the height of foolishness because in the end, corporations are not people: they have no loyalty to this country, and will turn the United States into a corrupt puppet of corporations. If the Kochs have their way, the United States will go the way of China, where every government official is on the take, the air is filled with toxic sludge from coal plants, corporate farms just dump dead pigs in the river, and the food is tainted with feces, toxins and filth.
All in the name of the false "freedom" from those regulations that keep our food, air and water clean.
Even if the Koch brothers were angels with the purest intent, conservatives have to know in their heart of hearts that this is wrong. When corporate money becomes the sole source of power, the people of the United States will lose -- even the conservatives. When the Koch's oil reserves run dry, they won't be the richest kids on the block anymore, and then it'll be tech guys like Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Larry Ellison, Larry Page, Sergey Brin and Jeff Bezos calling the shots. Or Michael Bloomberg and George Soros. Or the cabal of Wall Street bankers who brought us the Great Recession with their unbridled incompetence, greed and gall.
Or worse, Carlos Slim of Mexico, Li Ka-Shing and Lui Che Woo of Hong Kong, and Alisher Usmanov of Russia. Yeah, it'll be illegal. At first. But only until they buy enough politicians and judges to get the laws changed.
Just like the Koch brothers did.
1 comment:
I know the Koch brothers are as much of a "trigger" for the emotionally-driven Nikto, as much as Emmanuele Goldstein was for Oceania citizens, but this kind of a new low. The New York Times Ignores the Facts In Tennessee. Never mind that Nikta is so emotionally-driven that his reading comprehensions drops down into kindergarten levels (example, a group that the Kochs contribute to was NOT the sole contributor to the campaign), and ignores other contributors, that doesn't prevent Nikto-anus from erupting into a full frothing frenzy against the EVIL Koch brothers.
Given Nikto's full-throated support of gun-control measures meant to keep guns out of all but politically-connected hands, I think it reveals so much more more about Nikto himself. Certainly with his emotionally-driven, rage-based view of politics, he should definitely should be barred firearms, knifes, and probably string.
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