Charles Koch Wants to Be the Next Bernie Sanders

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Charles Koch Wants to Be the Next Bernie Sanders

by Eric Levitz at the Daily Intelligencer at New York Magazine

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/06/charles-koch-wants-to-be-the-next-bernie-sanders.html

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"Look around: America is divided. Between success and failure. With government and corporations picking winners and losers. Rigging the system against the people. Creating a two-tiered society,” the voice-over bemoans, as the video switches back and forth between shiny McMansions and foreclosed properties, smiling Wall Street executives and sad African-American schoolchildren. "It's time to remove the barriers, to end the divide, to replace winner-take-all with a system where we all can win."

In a democracy, every political interest group will give its policies a populist sheen. And the Koch brothers’ brand of market populism has a long pedigree in the United States. But it’s hard not to hear echoes of a certain Vermont senator in Charles Koch’s AP interview and his new ad campaign. And there’s reason to think this mimicry is calculated.

Last month, the National Review reported that the Koch brothers were refocusing their political efforts away from electoral politics and toward their “educational and advocacy work.” According to Koch allies who spoke with the magazine, Bernie Sanders’s campaign helped inspire this shift:


Koch allies say the brothers took tremendous interest in Bernie Sanders’ unlikely success — particularly his resonance with young voters who represent the future of the electorate — and drew stark conclusions about their own efforts. “Dumping hundreds of millions of dollars into elections doesn’t persuade enough people to achieve lasting change,” one Koch confidante says. “To achieve lasting change, the effort has to begin much earlier.”




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1. Like thats going to happen

[Eleanors38]

2. Koch Bros. have been at ths long before Sanders camp. They just looking for legitimacy.

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3. Psychopaths love to jump in on a narrative like they are girls doing double dutch in a schoolyard.

[TwilightZone]

4. He wants to lose the Democratic Primary to Hillary Clinton? Well, there's always 2020.

Joking aside, I find it curious any time a billionaire who advocates the kind of nonsense he advocates thinks he can become a populist overnight.

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5. Lol

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6. How the hell does the Onion stay in business with reality like this

The Koch brothers as populists makes me think of Pat Boone covering Little Richard's songs back in the 50s.
There was no chance you could mistake Pat Boone for Little Richard and no chance you will mistake a Koch brother for a Bernie Sanders

See if you can spot any resemblance to little Richard: