And make many homeless or commit suicide. Population reduction is a major GOP goal.

[freshwest]

Look for scores of media stories demonizing the disabled as they manufacture consent. After media outlets push the meme, they will report that the public approves of their echo, giving the GOP cover to do it!

They'll use many methods, faux scandals, tabloid stories and setting the disabled and and elderly against each other. Without unity, and appealing to human pettiness, it'll be easy.

The Koch agenda is right on schedule, and media will support it through diversions like the Bundy fiasco, giving non-stop media coverage because Sanders and Reid were getting traction in stories that revealed the GOP/Koch Libertarian agenda. This is in the David Koch Libertarian platform since 1980. Sanders put the whole thing online. And no, there's no change in LP state platform. This is still their philosophy.

They have gotten just about everything on their list, playing the CT, Tea, GOP and the public who don't understand what the world the Koch brothers are forcing on us to accept really. Note that Social Security and the Post Office are on the list:

BERNIE SANDERS Uncovers 1980 Koch Agenda- "What Do the Koch Brothers Want?"

What else do the Koch brothers want?

In 1980, David Koch ran as the Libertarian Party's vice-presidential candidate in 1980.

Here are just a few excerpts of the Libertarian Party platform that David Koch ran on in 1980:

We urge the repeal of federal campaign finance laws, and the immediate abolition of the despotic Federal Election Commission.

We favor the abolition of Medicare and Medicaid programs.

We oppose any compulsory insurance or tax-supported plan to provide health services, including those which finance abortion services.

We also favor the deregulation of the medical insurance industry.

We favor the repeal of the fraudulent, virtually bankrupt, and increasingly oppressive Social Security system. Pending that repeal, participation in Social Security should be made voluntary.

We propose the abolition of the governmental Postal Service. The present system, in addition to being inefficient, encourages governmental surveillance of private correspondence. Pending abolition, we call for an end to the monopoly system and for allowing free competition in all aspects of postal service.

We oppose all personal and corporate income taxation, including capital gains taxes.

We support the eventual repeal of all taxation.

As an interim measure, all criminal and civil sanctions against tax evasion should be terminated immediately.

We support repeal of all law which impede the ability of any person to find employment, such as minimum wage laws.

We advocate the complete separation of education and State. Government schools lead to the indoctrination of children and interfere with the free choice of individuals. Government ownership, operation, regulation, and subsidy of schools and colleges should be ended.

We condemn compulsory education laws and we call for the immediate repeal of such laws.

We support the repeal of all taxes on the income or property of private schools, whether profit or non-profit.

We support the abolition of the Environmental Protection Agency.

We support abolition of the Department of Energy.

We call for the dissolution of all government agencies concerned with transportation, including the Department of Transportation.

We demand the return of America's railroad system to private ownership. We call for the privatization of the public roads and national highway system.

We specifically oppose laws requiring an individual to buy or use so-called "self-protection" equipment such as safety belts, air bags, or crash helmets.

We advocate the abolition of the Federal Aviation Administration.

We advocate the abolition of the Food and Drug Administration.

We support an end to all subsidies for child-bearing built into our present laws, including all welfare plans and the provision of tax-supported services for children.

We oppose all government welfare, relief projects, and aid to the poor programs. All these government programs are privacy-invading, paternalistic, demeaning, and inefficient. The proper source of help for such persons is the voluntary efforts of private groups and individuals.

We call for the privatization of the inland waterways, and of the distribution system that brings water to industry, agriculture and households.

We call for the repeal of the Occupational Safety and Health Act.

We call for the abolition of the Consumer Product Safety Commission.

We support the repeal of all state usury laws.

In other words, the agenda of the Koch brothers is not only to defund Obamacare. The agenda of the Koch brothers is to repeal every major piece of legislation that has been signed into law over the past 80 years that has protected the middle class, the elderly, the children, the sick, and the most vulnerable in this country...

Tomorrow it will be Social Security, ending Medicare as we know it, repealing the minimum wage. It seems to me that the Koch brothers will not be content until they get everything they believe they are entitled to.

Our great nation can no longer be hijacked by right-wing billionaires like the Koch brothers.

For the sake of our children and our grandchildren, for the sake of our economy, we have got to let democracy prevail.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024806298

http://www.sanders.senate.gov/koch-brothers

http://www.historycommons.org/context.jsp?item=a7980koch

to kpete:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024806298

We've heard these memes for years, Americans have come to believe this is how it has to be.

This is the future Americans voted for in 2010 and 2014, either directly by voting for the GOP, or living in the past and thinking the GOP wouldn't do this to us. This is from a half century agenda, as shown by Thom Hartmann:

Thom Hartmann: Conservative Millennials, Boomers & Libertarians all being Conned

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1017&pid=44227

We need to check the list to see where we are now. Virtually every meme we see pushed has elements of these things, using F.U.D. and hyperbole. The goal is the same. A return to the days when there were only ten amendments to the Constitution which didn't work for quite a number of Americans. Clearly, the Koch Libertarian agenda will repeal everything that doesn't go along with their pre-Revolutionary War mindset. I'd say pre-Civil War, but the CSA said the Founding Fathers were insane to even pen the phrase, 'All Men Are Created Equal.' So they'll go back to the Articles of Confederation, which is what Richard Mack and others of his ilk promote.