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Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
13. Yes. MacLean shows they really do mean to destroy democracy
Tue Sep 18, 2018, 08:06 AM
Sep 2018

in order to depower electorates who are bothering the "master class." Those who don't vote aren't their problem, of course.

I have the book somewhere but only got a couple chapters in before setting it somewhere. Not because it doesn't have an important message, though. People like the Kochs have been investing in turning America ultraconservative since the 1960s or so, but this book helps show how their subversion really started taking off in the 1990s.

Today their Republican agents in the senate are trying to ram through someone who once couldn't have gotten appointed to any federal judgeship. He's only unacceptable because his background is so provably dirty, not because his extreme ideology isn't in lock step with this plot to transfer our power and wealth to the few.

Well, it's coming out and slowly getting around. Way too slowly.



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