Charles Koch owes me a keyboard and monitor, there I was drinking coffee and reading the usual drivel from a major purveyor of economic and political corruption, then at the end this....
Koch went on to lambast “irresponsible government spending from both political parties that’s bankrupting out nation,” and a “foreign policy that repeats the mistakes of the past and feeds special interests at the expense of a national defense that truly makes Americans safe.” And he called on the assembled business leaders to reject “corporate welfare,” that he said is creating “a two-tier society” by “creating a permanent underclass, crippling our economy and corrupting the business community – present company excepted, of course.
The hypocrisy of the sound bite coupled with the truth, the magnitude of the sanctimony, the sheer and utter mocking of the rest [bolded] of us.
Being spat upon by one of the people most responsible for the current crisis of democracy is just too damn much for a Sunday morning.
Wars for oil, sacrificing the climate and bailing the whole damn financial system out for these vultures was not enough, no, we have to be ridiculed at the same time.
They can only get away with this cultural nihilism because of our spineless politicians and those that elect them. When a politician stands up they are painted as some form of crazy socialist radical by all and sundry. Yet those doing the putting down don't even seem to get just how slighted and despised they are by the people they obey.
It is class warfare, but it is not the 99% doing the fighting, it is a tiny percentage asset stripping and jeering at us as they go. The wreckage of the financial crisis, the never ending drive to make us work harder for less and the blatant buying of our political system is not enough, not one bit, they have to deride us as well.
They are laughing at us.
They are right to do so.
Goddammit.