The 1 percent’s sinister inequality lie: How cold-blooded billionaires are pretending to care about

The 1 percent’s sinister inequality lie: How cold-blooded billionaires are pretending to care about the American dream

by Heather Digby Parton

http://www.salon.com/2015/08/12/the_1_percents_sinister_inequality_lie_how_cold_blooded_billionaires_are_pretending_to_care_about_inequality/

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This was during the height of the Occupy Wall Street movement, which these fine fellows referred to as a bunch of “imbeciles.” There was some nervousness about all that “populist anger” being directed at the wealthy elites but for the most part, they were merely petulant and pouty about being criticized by inferior people who simply weren’t giving them proper credit for being their wonderful selves. The billionaires already had all the money and all the power. Now they wanted to be loved.

In 2012, Mitt Romney was their Barack Obama, saying to all who would listen, “Yes, we can!” When he dropped his bombshell 47 percent comment, he was speaking for them. That didn’t work out so well, so now we have a change in strategy. This was recently signaled by the Godfather of Billionaire activists, Charles Koch himself, when he reframed his 50 years of ruthless, capitalist greed and avarice:


Billionaire industrialist Charles Koch on Sunday compared the efforts of his political network to the fight for civil rights and other “freedom movements,” part of a growing effort by the organization to emphasize its commitment to the plight of the disenfranchised.

During remarks to 450 wealthy conservatives assembled in the ballroom of a lavish oceanfront resort, Koch urged his fellow donors to follow the lead of figures such as Frederick Douglass, Susan B. Anthony and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.

“Look at the American revolution, the anti-slavery movement, the women’s suffrage movement, the civil rights movement,” Koch said. “All of these struck a moral chord with the American people. They all sought to overcome an injustice. And we, too, are seeking to right injustices that are holding our country back.”



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