Thom Hartmann: The Billionaires Won: The 50-Year War on Democracy That Built Trump's Oligarchy and Killed the American D

[ificandream]

Full headline: The Billionaires Won: The 50-Year War on Democracy That Built Trump's Oligarchy and Killed the American Dream

We just watched the final fulfillment of a 50 year plan. Louis Powell laid it out in 1971, and every step along the way Republicans have follow it.

It was a plan to turn America over to the richest men and the largest corporations. It was a plan to replace democracy with oligarchy. A large handful of America’s richest people invested billions in this plan, and its tax breaks and fossil fuel subsidies have made them trillions. More will soon come to them.

As any advertising executive can tell you, with enough money and enough advertising — particularly if you are willing to lie — you can sell anybody pretty much anything.

Even a convicted felon, rapist, and friend and agent of America’s enemies.

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[Sanity Claws]

1. This is the truth

Corporate media are owned by the rich oligarchy and they produce non-stop propaganda.

[ificandream]

2. I think Hartmann is talking about Fox and its ilk, not the NY Times

Of course, I would gladly argue the stupidity of the Washington Post not to endorse Harris had a little something to do with this, but not very much. It was stupid voters, not stupid media.

[Sanity Claws]

3. I was getting at something more insidious than this

Brainwashing and propaganda is going on nonstop and has been for decades. People are brainwashed into thinking that unions are bad. People are brainwashed into thinking that insurance like Social Security and the ACA are forms of socialism and thus bad.
As for the current election cycle, let's not forget the sane washing of 45 that went on. He talked gibberish but the media would make it sound like he had policy positions.
They held Kamala to a different standard.

[ificandream]

7. Re:

> As for the current election cycle, let's not forget the sane washing of 45 that went on. He talked gibberish but the media would make it sound like he had policy positions.
They held Kamala to a different standard.<

I would very much disagree with that. There were many many stories about his gibberish and mental decline. Ad I saw Kamala's positions detailed.

No, the fault was in the message itself. The Repubs used fearmongering. The Dems didn't. Maybe that's what we need to do a little more of when it comes to problems like Trump.

[we can do it]

5. Fuck the NYT

[Zorro]

4. Fascism has now come to America

Workers will become serfs to their corporate masters.

[multigraincracker]

6. Time to look into this...

EAT THE RICH.

[travelingthrulife]

10. Roll those tumbrels

The whole world is being held hostage by a few hundred oligarchs. Killing them may be the most moral solution.

[EastBayGuy]

8. BOYCOTT MSM!

That's my first step. No papers, no TV news. My second step is to cancel Youtube TV and explain that I refuse to pay a dime to MSM, starting with FOX news.

[Brother Buzz]

9. The Powell Memorandum

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_F._Powell_Jr.#Powell_Memorandum,_1971