Your excellent analysis fairly dripped sarcasm, but was dead on.
Those whom I thought were reasonably intelligent people, seemed to have forgotten the lessons of Insurrection 101. ALWAYS take over radio, TV, and newspapers first. Gotta control the message.
Now, if your target is BIG, like Animal-Farm-On-Steroids big, ya can't grab everything all at once. Upsetting an applecart of those prodigious dimensions serves no one, economically speaking, and it gives the game away before the coin toss. Think Frog-in-ever-warming-water. Slow and steady, and the frog never knows what's going on until it too late.
Give a slime bucket like Rupert Murdoch a super-charged rocket sled to citizenship so he can own media in this country, throw the Fairness Doctrine in the wood chipper, and turn the motherfucker loose. Pack the courts with corrupt mental defectives with the moral compass of rabid hyenas, and feed them a daily diet of frivolous lawsuits against anything and everything that smells like democracy; follow Roy Cohn's advice and get dirt on anyone and everyone that might ever get in your way; splatter a couple of Libs all over the landscape just to put the fear of Gawd in the rest of 'em, and it's smooth sailing to Nazi Amerika 2.0. Ah! You forgot that there was a 1.0! Madison Square Garden, 1939, featuring Charles Lindbergh. Barrel o' laughs.
And here we are, boys and girls! Our own private Idaho of a Randian hellscape. You can check out, but you can never leave.
And people wonder why I drink.
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