America on Koch

He may not have been their favored candidate but the Koch boys can't complain about Trump. For decades the Kochs and their allies have been conditioning America for just such a debacle and now a hefty share of the electorate is not only unable to discern the truth but they are instinctively drawn to falsehood, as long as the falsehood has an appropriate element of bigotry.

Their movement massively overreacted to the 1960's as though it was a prison riot. They never succeeded in redefining that innocent exuberance as a riot but they have sure succeeded with the prison part. Their prisoner voters have been complicit, choosing the womb-like confines of Koch-world, not understanding that it's impossible to withdraw and be a spectator and look out.

We are out, always participating in life and shaping it in our likenesses, wittingly or otherwise.

Wittingly is better. It means responsibility and the ownership of our independence. This is called "freedom" and the Kochs shouldn't throw that word around so much. Their minions have opted out of it for the false security of a prison of comforting delusion, determinism and tribal togetherness. We are all winding up within the walls, although as administrators, wardens and caretakers.

We babysit the inmates and pay their bills and try to keep them from harming themselves and us. Rational people see that it is a poisonous, parallel world. Trump shows us, however, how viable the delusion is. What do the Kochs really think, I wonder? They don't care about anything but themselves. Their sworn and self-serving testimony is that the nicotine of their ideas is not addicting.

But their ideological children are all smokers and having horrible health effects as a result. Boo-hoo, boys. Good luck getting them off of it. The kids are terribly hooked and not only on a specific set of lies, as the Kochs had hoped, but on lying, denial and delusion in general, not so much because more is merrier but because there is always increasingly shameful stuff to flee from and deny.