As we noted yesterday, the plutocrat Republican majority on the Supreme Court further trashed campaign contribution limits that have been in place since the Constitution-shredding Republican debacle known as Watergate. Today, in the tradition of other Republican-funding, self-pitying plutocrat billionaires, Evil Koch #1 (Charles) penned an op/ed in the (where else?) Wall Street Journal bawling about how unfairly he and Evil Koch #2 (David) are being treated by the "collectivists." (Haven't heard that term lately, though we don't make a point of visiting the fever swamps of the John Birch Society/ Ayn Rand/ tea bagger world). Don't we "collectivists" get it? Their "free speech" is not only infinitely more deep-pocketed, but it's not supposed to be criticized!
As a public service, and as an antidote to the projection, piety and false umbrage in the op/ed, we wish to point out a few things to anyone unfamiliar with the Koch brothers' assault on American democracy:
-- they're the compassionate plutocrats who fund the "Americans for
-- they're the civic-minded plutocrats opposing a mass transit project in Tennessee;
-- they're the environmentalist plutocrats who fund deniers of global climate change;
-- they're the grass-roots plutocrats who fund (through "Americans for
-- they're the transparent plutocrats who have created a network of "dark money" fronts to hide fellow plutocrats' funding of far-right causes;
-- they're the small-d democratic plutocrats (along with the American Legislative Exchange Council) funding the voter suppression activities around the country.
Yeah, nothing to worry about from them.
(Image: The Koch brothers (visual approximation) with apologies to Matt Groening & The Simpsons)
