Knee Jerk Opinion - Koch Brothers (1 Viewer)

[flat_earth]

Looks like Chuck is still doing his thing. After careful consideration I think I'll stick with my "very negative opinion" answer to the poll.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/sep/23/koch-bankrolls-election-denier-candidates

Still, at least one veteran of a thinktank that Charles Koch co-founded and has helped fund says that the company’s ongoing support for election deniers is very troubling.

“When the only elected officials who will carry your political water are proto-fascists, what is one to do?” said Jerry Taylor, a former vice-president at the Cato Institute in DC where he oversaw climate and energy issues. “Charles Koch has made his choice. This self-proclaimed voice of freedom and liberty has apparently decided that advancing the public policies he desires is more important than democracy.

“His choice is not unlike the choices that most German industrialists made in the Weimar Republic.”

 

[Sabertooth]

“Maybe you do not care much about the future of the Republican Party. You should. Conservatives will always be with us. If conservatives become convinced that they can not win democratically, they will not abandon conservatism. The will reject democracy.” - David Frum



This is exactly what is playing out in real time in front of our eyes with the Big lie and the attacks on voting that followed it. It will only get worse from here.

 

[(HULK)]

My opinion is pretty negative. They run an entire dark money network through astroturf charities. I know because I applied to one once, had an interview, and walked out based on what I learned. As a veteran, I wasn't okay with a fake veteran's issues charity that was really just going to funnel funds to buy votes to support whatever agenda the Koch businesses had at the moment.