I am more afraid of the GOP and the Koch's taking over the country than ISIS

[YarnAddict]

17. I'm not afraid of ISIS,

but I'm not afraid of the Koch brothers, either.

David and Charles Koch are libertarians, not Tea Party lunatics. Libertarianism used to be considered to be not such a bad thing, by people who believe individuals should be left alone to love whom they please, to smoke whatever they please, to control their own healthcare decisions, etc. It's the "leave me alone, as long as what I do doesn't affect you" ideology. I don't have a big problem with libertarianism.

Furthermore, the Kochs do some good things with their $$. They fund cancer research, scholarships, colleges, hospitals, and probably a lot of other things. (I doubt that ISIS puts their considerable funds to such good use.) If you were diagnosed with cqncer, would you question where the research funds come from that give you a chance at a cure? If your child could afford to attend the college of his/her choice thanks to a Koch scholarship, would you insist that he/she turn it down?

This is another example: The DeVos family here in Michigan made a small fortune scamming desperate people with their Amway-Scamway pyramid scheme. But, if a child here in rural western Michigan is badly injured in an accident, or has a life-threatening illness, they will more than likely be life-flighted to the Helen DeVos Children's Hospital in Grand Rapids. Only a fool would stand on principle and refuse treatment because of the source of the funds.

The Koch brothers are just the bogeyman that Harry Reid invokes to rile up their base. Same thing the right wing does with "terrorism."