It's amazing that over the span of two decades, America went from this...

[loudsue]

45. Because in-between was the Powell Manifesto: the 1%'s refusal to EVER be told what to do by the

unwashed masses -- ever again -- after the revolution of the 1960's/early 1970's, where native americans, black people, chicanos and women were recognized to have equal rights as the white guys. (Way too scary for the 1%.)

The Powell Manifesto was a deliberate, written PLAN for the 1%, lead by Adolph Coors and the Chamber of Commerce and others, to:

1) infiltrate the democratic party

2) take over all the media (teevee, newspaper, radio AND churches -- where do you think all that money comes from for the mega-churches that support the republican/Powell/1% agenda?

3) reduce the number of liberal-leaning professors who are afforded tenure in the colleges, by tying college research & sports funding to a voice in who gets hired/tenured

4) attach themselves to right-leaning organizations like the NRA, to move them further to the right

5) find a puppet president (Reagan) who would deregulate the banks (one of the biggest places to start a right-wing take-over)

and 6) use every opportunity to make any possible effective use of propaganda and demonize liberals (which Reagan did).

There is more they did, but google the Powell Manifesto, and dig deeper past the google-picked links to see just how insidious their plans were.