AstroTurf Organizations within the Koch network each promote issues and advance multiple Koch agendas at once
CRT for example is to undermine public education-promote privatization and enrage their voters to vote R
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Koch libertarians could honestly care less about CRT as an issue, but knowing they could twist the facts, play to the racists and pick up Republicans votes by twisting the CRT message..they went all in in Virginia
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Faux grass roots appearance of the Anti-CRT campaign is another trade mark of Koch networks
However, it doesn't take Herculean effort to uncover the same old billionaires behind the scenes, despite their attempts to hide
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Using “Concerned Parents" as cover is another part of the strategy, yet time after time we find these concerned parents are no more than paid operatives to provide faux cover so the whole network can operate in the shadows
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Despite the facts that CRT isn't taught outside of law schools, it has become a catch-all for teaching history that triggers white families to feel uncomfortable
Those triggers are entirely fabricated for Kochs propaganda
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Once the Astroturf campaign kicks off the media machine kicks in. Right wing media assaulted Reps daily with CRT is reverse racism rhetoric
Not mentioning of course that the very messengers were just as fake as the message
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In Virginia more Astroturf groups were formed to demand recalls of school boards members who did not even have CRT in their school districts but just simply would not go along with anti-CRT lunacy and support the lie
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When one leg of the Koch network publishes a new lie the whole apparatus moves forward at once.
The web of dark money, organization and coordination of the Koch Network, made the CRT lie a movement for the gullible
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Koch's network provided printed instruction on how to disrupt local school board meetings
And unfortunately for the country disrupting political discourse is what the right now considers legitimate political discourse
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Sadly, everytime these Koch billionaires launch these corporate capture campaigns, society pays a price
Having those with the most money dictating policy about our children's future, is not a recipe for success as a nation
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Aligning with the racism/fascism goes back to Kochs father who founded the John Birch society, and worked for both Stalin and later Hitler developing Oil Fields.
Koch has never cared about this country's citizens only $s
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What purpose do the 1% billionaires hope to accomplish?
One of Koch's end goals is to privatize for profit our public education system and they have no concern on who they destroy to achieve those goals
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The lie has eroded education systems across the country,
elected Republicans under false pretenses
and has allowed wealthy billionaires to continue to corrupt our country for greed & profit.
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Additional Sources
thedailybeast.com/right-wing-ari…
Another excellent reference resource article TY @susanbordson
nepc.colorado.edu/sites/default/…
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