Last Thursday a Durango Herald article by Jonathan Romeo informed me that Koch’s political machine, “Americans for Prosperity,” has now invaded our nice little town. It’s first target is County Commissioner Gwen Lachelt because she has the audacity to be concerned with our environment’s health. Worse, she believes the Oil Industry needs to take responsibility for the messes they consistently make. Ironically, Lachelt has never voted against an oil development permit, but that’s not good enough, ideological purity is Koch’s goal.
That Gwen is competently fulfilling her sworn duties and representing the sentiments of a majority of her constituents, means nothing to Americans for Prosperity. She’s doing what We The People wanted, but she’s unsupportive of Koch’s unbridled prosperity, thus she must go. A lesson to make all understand who our future belongs to.
I’ve long been familiar with the “Americans for (Koch’s) Prosperity” on account of their dirty tricks regarding communicating climate science reality. Campaigns based on deception, innuendos, misrepresenting the science, along with wholesale malicious lies and a good dose of bullying opponents. But since learning about our climate and Earth’s evolution in general, along with defending climate science, has taken up what free time I have, I’ve pretty much ignored them.
Time to stop that, so the past days I’ve spent a bunch of time getting to know them through their website. The high pressure recruiting effort is astounding, their absolutist tenor is terrifying. Still I refuse to let my sense of defeat and dread immobilize me, thus I've decided to share my findings and report on local AFP shenanigans as we move forward.
After perusing their blog, and other articles, I’ll wager AFP may well wind up breaking the GOP and morphing into an ‘independent’ political party run by and for oligarchs as they force their radical changes onto our pluralistic American Way. It sure smells like that's their endgame.
They only want their fair share - All of it!
Frighteningly, the Koch bro’s and friends have the ruthlessness along with the ways and means to accomplish their dream. Realistically, at this point, who’s to stop their juggernaut of deceptive siren song, exclusivism and dedication to Profits Über Alles under the banner of Americans for Prosperity?
La Plata County liberals/progressives it’s our move.
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