@Snowshadow
No problem, take your time.
OFC, I still have one ace up my sleeve, 😉 portraying the root of all evil by the corporate takeover of America.
It is a fascinating story of hugely successful long-range planing by a loose group with shared interests. I hope my thread is still there.
@Snowshadow
So, here you go. The root of all evil later-day #SupremeCourt #Justice, #LewisPowell's CONFIDENTIAL MEMORANDUM
Attack on American Free Enterprise System" written in 1971:
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As I was discussing the "root of all evil" in the #US present-day #Republican political thinking with
@Jeramee a while back, I had my misgivings about dating the Republican counterattack against #BigGovernment: the 1971 #LewisPowell "CONFIDENTIAL MEMORANDUM Attack on American Free Enterprise System").
IMO, it was not. It started years earlier, at the latest in 1965,...
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...when right-wing economist, #Republican economics strategist, and later-day #NobelLaureate #JamesBuchanan founded what would later be known as the #VirginiaSchool.
#Duke historian #NancyMacLean, has written a fascinating, apparently well-researched book, #DemocracyInChains 2), about #Buchanan and his little publicized but effective machinations on #US international relations and #economic...
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...policy.
"She argues that unlike even the most property-friendly founders #AlexanderHamilton and #JamesMadison, 👉 #Buchanan wanted a private governing elite of corporate power that was wholly released from public accountability.👈
👉Suppressing voting, changing legislative processes so that a normal majority could no longer prevail, ...
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...sowing public distrust of government institutions— all these were tactics toward the goal. But the Holy Grail was the #Constitution:👈
alter it and you could increase and secure the power of the wealthy in a way that no politician could ever challenge."
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HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴
