The Brothers Koch

The Koch (pronounced coke) brothers are industrial gazzilionaires who have been funding far right PACS and interest groups for decades. Like the Taxaphobic, gun toting, history revisionist Tea party.

How did dumb become a virtue 

in political debate

The crazier the sound bytes are

the more they resonate 

Representing village idiots

A wing nut kind of norm 

Legislate against the people 

while claiming it's reform 

Deregulate the EPA

No more minimum wage

Cut tax rates for billionaires 

So we can be their slaves

Say no to global warming

Keep burning fossil fuel 

Say the facts are inconclusive

Though irrefutable 

Hand us over to the rich man 

The far right battle cry

They prey upon the ignorant

You have to wonder why

The architects of lunacy

The mirror in the smoke 

Aristocratic sabotage

The good old brothers Koch 

The far right sugar daddies 

with money to swing votes

Since citizens united past

unlimited banknotes 

Funding phony grass root parties

Through their super PACS

Generating paranoia 

with fear monger attacks 

Duping the uneducated

into a corporate vote 

Buying off the house and senate

with laws they underwrote 

When "grass root" party politics 

align with industry

You have to wonder what is up

With the duality 

The puppet master in the mix

The hand behind the cloak 

The far right wing nut piggy bank 

The Good old Brothers Koch 

Author's Note

The Koch brothers inherited their empire, as well as their politics from their father "Fred C Koch" who was quite the wing nut himself. Fred was on the board of the old anticommunist right wing group "The John Birch society". Fred fervently believed President Eisenhower was a communist stooge and wasn't to thrilled with JFK being catholic either. To the end of his life Fred was convinced communists were everywhere and he passed that paranoia onto his sons who started the rumor Obama was a socialist long before he was ever elected to the oval office. Koch industries main agenda is government deregulation, particularly the IRS and the EPA so they don't have to pay taxes or spend money cleaning up their factories, hence the Republican main stay of tax cuts for the wealthy and denying global warming. Koch industries have maintained a low profile with very little transparency into their political contributions until recent years when it was discovered their super PAC "Americans for Prosperity" had been the master minds behind the populist tea party uprising after Obama was elected to office. The tea party has been as much a curse as they've been a blessing to the Republican party. Dragging the party so far to the right any sign of bipartisanship is viewed as treason from the rank and file. The Koch brothers are one of the chief players in the severe partisan politics we're seeing today.

Reviews

[Mark]

The Koch brothers are definitely free enterprise run amock... the epitome of 'crony capitalism' in which government is bribed into favoring the elite. I don't see Obama as being much better, just the flip side of that same coin. His promises of a 'transparent administration' turned into one of the most secretive and vindictive reigns we've yet seen. He promised to work with congress and not be like Bush using executive decrees... what really went down is he's been as divisive as any president ever. Mostly because Democrats damn near worshipped him. (Pelosi will go down in history for her remarks about passing the AHCA so we can see what's in it.)

There is no white knights anymore my brother. There is only money and politics and both have gotten deeply intertwined to the point that small businesses are extinct, and our elected officials tell bald faced lies in the form of promises used to get into office never intending to keep one of them.

The answer? I dunno... I don't vote Republican anymore, but I don't vote Democrat either. I vote third party. This next election I've been looking at The Pirate Party, they are pretty unorganized but have some good values. When I get filthy rich maybe I'll go buy some cheap third world and make my own country!

[Baby Ricochet]

Ah. This one struck a chordwith you. Thank you for your inputMark , I appreciate it.

[Mark]

Ya. I love this country but it's government needs a good enema.

[WILDERNESS]

thats capitalism, friend. brilliant poem and so nicely expressed............................... BTW obama's just a stooge, true masters never show.

[Baby Ricochet]

Thanks for stopping by wilderness. I appreciate it.

[Tom]

Indeed, money don't maketh a Man !

A cerebral, thought-provoking poetic piece of writing !

[Baby Ricochet]

Thank you Tom

[Draven]

I always admire your truth and the amazing way you speak it, but your poetry just has this kind of flow to it, and sometimes even a humor to it that keeps me coming back.

[Baby Ricochet]

Thank you Casanova

[Coyote Poetry]

Thank you for the information. Koch is one of many companies that don't pay taxes. Big Business own the Senate and the House. What can we do? I believe less government and allow the states to run all the basic of the states.
Coyote

[Baby Ricochet]

We can vote them out in the midterms. This is still a democracy, sort of.

[Luke L]

Great stuff man, very interesting! You are a savage :). Have you ever checked out the Joe Rogan Experience? I think you would enjoy it.

[Baby Ricochet]

I have not but I will look. Thank you Luke

[Tate Morgan]

Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
Mark Twain
I for one dont ascribe to this practice .

[Baby Ricochet]

Thanks for stopping by Tate.

[MsJewel]

Well said my friend!

:) Julie

[Baby Ricochet]

thank you julie

[Travis Gibson (poetic h..]

Great piece and great information to accompany it. Politics adds up like "fool's gold" to me. But, your knowledge on the subject is impressive.

[Baby Ricochet]

thank you Poet

[Marie]

I didn't know about this. I guess the Koch brothers are just one more step down the ladder.

[Baby Ricochet]

Lol! That's one way to put it