The Kochs’ massive failure of a youth outreach front group is still around, apparently. And Generation Opportunity’s latest effort at encouraging “creative disruption” looks suspiciously like encouraging “law breaking.”
With a recent blog post entitled, “How Food Trucks Are Using Social Media to Get Around Government Regulators,” Generation Opportunity cleverly taps into millennials’ well-documented weakness for food trucks, while subtly emphasizing the perils of “burdensome government regulations.”
Such regulations are of course also known as “laws” — and the Generation Opportunity post is all about “innovat[ing]…around” them. Or, as the practice is more popularly known: “Breaking the law.”
But then again, in characteristic Koch front-group fashion, Generation Opportunity has never had the best interests of its target audience at heart. From opposition to student loan forgiveness and Medicaid expansions, to actively discouraging young people from getting health insurance, Generation Opportunity has consistently weighed Charles and David’s priorities — and bottom line — over the interests of America’s young people.
(And don’t think the whole “creative disruption” thing is off-brand for the Kochs. See: Charles and David’s storied history of bending — and breaking — environmental laws.)
Strangest of all: This isn’t the first time GenOpp’s used the old Trojan Food Truck. According to ThinkProgress, Generation Opportunity was list-building off of a meaningless pro-food truck “petition” way back in 2013 — knowing even then that no self-respecting millennial would pass up an opportunity to affirm his or her support for mobile food vendors, or something.
Well, why mess with such a tried and true formula, right?