Monday, August 23, 2010
Politics Who's jerking your chain?
Posted by Max Brantley on Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 8:42 AM
Tea Party. Americans for Prosperity. Global warming deniers. Clinton hate. Obama hate. Health care hate. Cap-and-trade hate Term limits. As I've said before, you don't have to scratch very deep to find the millions of the pollutiion-enabling Koch brothers driving these movements with their billions.
An important story in the New Yorker on the Kochs, who, it seems, have finally stired some popular support for their dangerous ideas. (If you want a local angle, the Kochs own what once was Georgia-Pacific. And it would be a great surprise if their money isn't finding its way into congressional campaigns in Arkansas.)
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From this I learned what not to patronize:
Brawny Paper towels
Dixie Cups
Lumber From Georgia Pacific
Stainmaster Carpet
Lycra products
The Koch bros (part of American Versailles) own a place in all parties. They own the game, the board, and the pieces.
Until we change the game.. that is how it will be.
Storm your own Bastille, America!
They are ALL jerking my chain, but the front page article in the DG’s “Perspective” section yesterday is still stuck in my craw. The argument that environmentalists are, in a public sense, blind to aesthetic value is beyond vacuous. The author saw an ugly pre-fab “green” dome and some garish trash bins in Britain, therefore environmentalists want to…quote… “DESTROY CIVILIZATION!” Couldn’t they find a chimp with a keyboard to draft something more coherent?
Cap and trade "hate", what are we now required to "love" all these boon doggle schemes big libs have concocted, or otherwise we are "haters." I guess its OK and perfectly PC to be a tax cut "hater" but not for cap and trade. What's next calling people "socialist haters"? For anyone that doesn't support bigger expanding bloated government on every level.
The mission of the Koch brothers is made easier by the appalling ignorance --- often willful ignorance --- about American history and how our government works displayed by the general public.
I've admired the UK electioneering process for a long time, especially as ours drag on and on and on and money is the underpinning for it all, which means "corruption" to the nth degree.
In the UK,political parties are only allowed to run ads on television and radio during the four or so weeks that mark the "official" electoral season. (Four weeks!) And those ads aren't in the slightest bit amusing. Rather, you see a bunch of sallow-skinned (usually) men in dull suits, looking you straight in the eye on grainy, less-than-state-of-the-art-quality film and talking about . . . policy. (Imagine that!) It's all fairly anodyne and serious and, well, dull. But it's short.
And, Cato, just as vacuous and self-serving as any political system anywhere. Well, peraps more Byzantine. This is, after all, a poilitcal system that has its own class system to ensure that only their 'approved' candidates can run. They have their own corporate interests that run their deals as well. You might want to learn about the British East Indies, and more recently, how the Brits, for corportate and pride, tried to take the Suez by force.
There is little, anywhere, in political proccess to admire. I kinda like the canton set up the Swiss have, but other than that, elections everywhere are messy and deceit ridden campaigns where many mouths will talk of 'caring' yet be ready to line their own nests.
I do find it of continued interest how skepticism of any of the current set of debacles, like Health care, the global change, can be considered hate? Trying to frame the arguiment that way is disingenuous, at best. It is an insistent lie.
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