Charles Koch's Bernie BS
Charles Koch gets my award for the single most audacious, ridiculous, and unintentionally funny op-ed I have read this year -- and maybe ever. In it, he alternately complains about Bernie attacking him, does his usual anti-government screed, rolls out his claims to be on the same side as Bernie on criminal justice reform, and attempts to wrap his right-wing ideology into Sanders' populist rhetoric. It is a mindblowing alternate reality well worth taking a look at if you need a good laugh.
Here is Koch at the height of his populist passion:
The senator is upset with a political and economic system that is often rigged to help the privileged few at the expense of everyone else, particularly the least advantaged. He believes that we have a two-tiered society that increasingly dooms millions of our fellow citizens to lives of poverty and hopelessness. He thinks many corporations seek and benefit from corporate welfare while ordinary citizens are denied opportunities and a level playing field. I agree with him
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