coup d’état: koch brothers are warlords

[sheshe2]

I have lived through 5 coups d’état. I know a coup d’état when I see one. USA is living through one right now as we speak. A Coup doesn’t have to have guns (yet) and a military takeover of power to be one.

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A nation is manipulated through a series of fiendishly planned rolling crises. Inchoate mass fear grows but its targeting is skillfully re-directed toward infighting, such that it becomes diffuse and rather impotent against the actual instigators. Trust for government and national institutions grows rancid.



Then a messiah runs to the rescue, suspends the constitution, promises to get rid of “waste, fraud, & abuse.” Says the abrogation of said Constitution is only “temporary.” Commandeers media to support “the people” in their new “Freedom, Liberty, Fraternity”. Flag and anthem totems resurge in fresh parades glorifying the mother/fatherland. Power has been seized. Resistance is futile.



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[Cha]

1. Thanks she for posting zizi's Piece

from TOD on the Koch's coup d’état.

She's a brilliant writer.. I just can't read the reality of it right now.

I'm too depressed. I know you understand.

[mwrguy]

2. Then give them war

Real war, the business end of a gun.

[freshwest]

3. There it is. Thanks.

[grantcart]

4. I have lived through a half dozen coup d'etats as well, I don't think the analogy is apt

btw how do you know the military has staged a coup d'état? You turn on the radio in your car and all of the radio stations are either quiet or playing martial music.

Coups don't always involve guns and aren't always unpopular. In undeveloped countries it is not unusual for the army to move in when an 'elected' government is raiding the treasury.

A Coup doesn’t have to have guns (yet) and a military takeover of power to be one.

I would argue that 2000 we saw a 'judicial coup d'etat' with the SC deciding on Bush vs Gore to discontinue vote counting in FL.

For it to be called a 'coup' one thing must happen: The head of government must be removed, or the new head of government decided by 'extra electoral processes'.

In this case that is not going to happen.

I am angry, probably angrier than most (bought only by second Johnny red in 10 years) but I still get picky about how words are used.