Koch Agenda
Background III
Understanding the Billionaires behind the corporate capture of America
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The first step to correcting the path of restoring our Democracy, is recognizing and exposing this Ultra Libertarian plot for America
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Orwellian doublespeak is the language of the Koch's and indeed by proxy the language of Republicans today
Anarchist, totalitarianism is what they stand for. Yet they prefer libertarian as it sounds less intimidating
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Drawing from intellectual anarcho-totalitarian heroes of economists like Rand, Hayek and to spread their anti-government message, they embarked on a decades long mission to replace Democracy with free rein economics
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Stealth and subterfuge all hallmark trademarks of the Kochtopus. Ingrained by their father Fred who founded the John Birch society
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The irony of the Koch network being the force it is today, is that the Kochs were influenced by the lunatic LeFevre, a cult like figure who Charles Koch supported all his life.
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Attacking Democracy meant creating an enemy
What better way to rile up anti intellectuals than accuse the left of trying to punish them for creating unchecked wealth
Trigger words like socialism became the new language
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The Billionaires organize and Koch's agenda becomes a long term strategy to Replace Democracy with Authoritarianism
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IV
Koch has largely flown under the radar for the most Americans, even among those who recognize the name, do not necessarily understand his entire network

But Koch's track record should scare the hell out of all citizens
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Indoctrination to the Koch way reads like pages from 1984
Ideology indoctrination is a tactic is embedded in the Republican party messaging today and these are the people who want to Privatize Public Ed?
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Cult like adherence to ideology is a bedrock of the Koch network, alive in all GOP messaging commanding obedience to the Billionaire libertarians who promise them all a better life.
Despite all evidence they do not
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Like most billionaires who push the “Pull yourselves up from your own bootstraps” rhetoric. Koch inherited his fortune.
Kind of like claiming you hit a homerun in life, when you started the game on 3rd base
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Koch’s unsavory business practices included lying for profit by shortchanging Native American Tribes in Oklahoma.
The primary motivator of Koch’s ideology is “unrestricted profit no matter what the expense to the Public”
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Koch’s industries have been frequent targets of the EPA and Koch’s hatred of the EPA is well documented.
To Koch as with all narcissists, anyone that holds him accountable for his actions is the enemy
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Koch's corporate model has caused deaths/pollution in trade for unchecked profits.
This is his vision for all of us and he has spent Billions lying to us about how much better life would be under this ideology
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Resource Article 1 and recommended reading
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