Charles Koch’s Messianic delusions: Industrialist says only conservative billionaires can save us

[DonViejo]

The GOP mega donor says the conservative movement is in "a life-or-death struggle for our country"

SOPHIA TESFAYE

Billionaire Charles Koch argued that conservatives are part of a “a life-or-death struggle for our country,” and that if the political network spearheaded by himself and his brother David fails to convince a “majority of Americans behind the vision, then we’re done for,” the Associated Press reports.

Koch spoke before a record 450 attendees at a semi-annual three-day conservative confab hosted by the billionaire brothers this weekend where GOP presidential candidates Carly Fiorina, Scott Walker, Marco Rubio, Jeb Bush and Ted Cruz all gathered to cozy up with Koch network donors who have pledged to spend nearly $1 billion to elect a Republican presidential candidate in 2016.

At the ritzy St. Regis Monarch Beach in sunny Dana Point, California, the elder Koch brother made a series of rather unexpected comparisons between his and his brother’s over decade-long fight to gain unimpeded influence in the American political process with a plethora of social justice fights to win freedoms for Americans throughout history.

In particular, Koch cited his network’s fight for criminal-justice reform as an issue that has gained traction amongst mainstream Republicans because it “strikes the same chord as past successful freedom movements.”

“Look at the American revolution, the anti-slavery movement, the women’s suffrage movement, the civil rights movement,” Koch instructed the gathered conservatives. “All of these struck a moral chord with the American people. They all sought to overcome an injustice.”

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[hobbit709]

1. Talk about sheer arrogance.

The only way to save us is to put our trust in the ones that put us into this mess to start with.
WTF!!!

[HFRN]

2. Billionairs are an endangered species

they're probably not more than a few thousand in the whole world

[hobbit709]

3. They're due for a great shortening in my book.

One species we can do without.

[meow2u3]

4. Billionaires should be extinct

They ought to settle for being multimillionaires.

[applegrove]

5. Please tell me they are in their 80s and not long for this earth.

[HFRN]

6. their father's pamphlet 'A businessman looks at communism' from 1961

http://digilib.usm.edu/cdm/ref/collection/manu/id/1420

you might have to zoom larger the pages (slide bar above the page image), you navigate the pages on the right hand side

[Rex]

7. Proof that too much money and power can rot the human brain.

These folks are criminally insane.