Charles Koch, puppet master of the Right and perhaps the Supreme Court, dusts off some of Ayn Rand's lingo like collectivism and tries to convince the world via the "Wall Street Journal" of his deep and abiding commitment to liberty and the common good. Keep in mind that no tyrant ever came forward spewing proclamations of oppression. They all talk about liberty in the beginning.
You will find many ironies in the following piece, not the
least of which is a reference to Arthur Schopenhauer's alleged advocacy of
personality assassination as adopted by Saul Alinsky. Funny, I read Schopenhauer; didn't like him
much, but don't remember any such thing.
At any rate, identifying Alinsky with Schopenhauer is a bit like
identifying Gertrude Stein with the feminist philosophy of the Old
Testament. It is stupid at best and on
its face. Koch conveniently overlooks
Karl Rove's pronounced ability to engage in personality destruction which he
learned at the knee of his mentor Mr. Lee Atwater, and used successfully to put
and keep G.W. Bush in office. Lee was
one of the most viscous personality assassins to ever step foot on the
political stage. I understand he died of cancer, begging his God for
forgiveness after decades of crapping on His image.
I am trying to adopt the Rachel Maddow strategy of laughing
at these people rather than flying into a rage and clicking my BP up several
dozen points. So read it and laugh, but
remember to know your enemy and make sure your friends know him too.
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