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

[Frieda P]

You're on quite the political tear lately Mark, although I know who you speak of, I wasn't aware of their history. Paranoia abounds, especially in these circles, it just takes one nutjob to get the ball rolling and the rest of the fools follow suit. They should dunk the tea party in hot oil as far as I'm concerned. I don't usually do politics as a rule, try to steer clear from that and polemical religion but I couldn't pass this excellent write up, never can any of yours, you always give the underdog a voice or smack someone upside the head and bring this kind of controversy into the limelight. Kudos BR.

[Baby Ricochet]

Thank you Frieda

[jacob erin-cilberto]

this just kills me...more fuel to the partisan fire...and again, all the political groups with their own agendas...they are elected to protect us...to work for the people...and all they care about is their own political destinations...

it sucks...and you are the master of political rant...you really capture the absurdity of it all.

[Baby Ricochet]

Thank you Jacob