Today’s Wall Street Journal features this op-ed by Charles Koch. In it, he explains why he and his family support the movement to depoliticize the US, to eliminate the corrupt and wasteful crony capitalism that infects us, and to restore economic liberty that has been lost steadily under both Democrats and Republicans.
Koch makes a strong and principled argument. Alas, that won’t cause a moment’s pause in the ferocious Two Minute Hate (I’m referring to Orwell’s 1984) that the partisans of the mega-state have whipped up against him and his brother David. Debating whether the US is better off with a constantly expanding government — one that claims the right to force people to buy particular products for the supposed common good — is the last thing Obama, Rich Trumka and their ilk want to do. Depicting their adversaries as demons is much easier and more effective
