War On Democracy: How The 50-Year Plan Built On Trump's Oligarchy Finally Allowed Billionaires To Win
Milwaukee Independent
Posted By Thom Hartmann
November 10, 2024
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 followed 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 it's 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 friendly agent of America's enemies.
America was overwhelmed this fall by billions of dollars in often dishonest advertising, made possible by five corrupt Republicans on the Supreme Court, and it worked.
Democrats were massively outspent, not to mention the power of the billionaire Murdoch family's Fox "News" and 1500 hate talk radio stations.
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