Kochy-Coup?

I am not an expert on the Koch brothers, but I have learned enough about them to realize why the US of A is growing into a cesspool of anti-union, anti-health care, anti-anything-progressive (or, shall I simply write “fair and decent”). The 3rd and 4th richest men in the U.S. are the Koch brothers; Charles and David respectively. Their father created Koch Industries, which deals in all things oil, ranching, mining. Did I just hear a cash cow chewing the cud of what else may lay under that huge rug? Yep. Delving deeper, one finds that their father was among the founders and financial backers of the infamous John Birch Society – which may explain what runs in their seemingly well-oiled veins.

Why are we now hearing about these guys? Unless you’ve turned off the TV and tossed out the newspaper for scrap, you have already heard about Supreme Court Justice Thomas’s lovely 4 day “stop-in” at a Koch retreat in Palm Springs 3 years ago where our mysteriously silent Justice quietly participated in what is known in “those” circles as a place where heavy-duty influential and wealthy conservatives get together and plot the overthrow of the American government. Ooops, I mean where they plot to retain their control over the American government so that Democrats and others of that ilk won’t overthrow their version of the government. Something like that. I’m just kidding, of course. Heh heh? I haven’t been invited so I really don’t know what actually transpires....

Perhaps another way to view the Koch’s cushy retreats would be to think of it as a Club Med for lots of white guys in suits who share a secret handshake and attend various fun-filled functions such as Power Point presentations on how to rule the world.

The brothers and/or their various corporate havens reportedly funded Wisconsin’s anti-union Governor’s run for office. Hmmmmmmm. Do ya' think someone has a big stake in the outcome of Wisconsin’s uprising? Could the influence of those men be why Gov. Walker has tried to ram his anti public employees’ union’s negotiating rights through the state legislature in such an un-democratic way?

In addition to owning much of America’s oil and land, the brothers own the Georgia Pacific logging company. They founded the Cato Institute, a conservative marketing firm that has been accused of being a front for a think tank. Other accusations abound regarding their funding activities – all of which smell like a conspiracy novel written in the wee hours of a stormy night with lightning strikes and thunder roaring in the background.

If any of the perceived secret involvements in the country’s political and business concerns is true, then what we have here, my friends, is a name for two participants in the New World Order/aka The Powers That Be/aka The Industrial Complex/aka the Big Bad Guys who would never run for office but prefer to be the puppeteers rather than the wee little puppets. Here are the true leaders in our country because they buy and pay for those who have the power to make decisions that will benefit whatever deals have been struck over time to keep the gap between the wealthy and the poor ever-widening into what may eventually become a U.S. revolt against the stifling of democracy. Does any of this sound familiar?

OMG! I’m sounding like a conspiracy person. However, the latest domestic area of discontent is Ohio, and it is suggested by numerous people that the Koch brothers’ long veiny arms are behind the problems there.

Stay tuned…… It's only just begun - yet again.