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Old 11-17-2014, 02:07 PM
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Welcome to the Koch Brothers Paradise

It's not really a conspiracy, I don't suppose. Let's just call it an extremely secretive agenda.
The Koch Brothers learned a good lesson from their father. They saw that he had been marginalized in this right-wing extremist viewpoints by associating himself too closely with the John Birch Society, which was considered a nutcase cult by many in our society.
So they decided go "mainstream". As such, they have contributed hundreds of millions of dollars over the past three to four decades to building up "legitimate" organizations it order to promote their libertarian agenda.
The CATO Institute is a prime example. Instead of hiring loudmouth nutcases, they filled the Institute with "professorial" types who had advanced college degrees and could thus be seen as advancing solid intellect-based ideas.
A more "hands-on" organization is the "Americans for Prosperity" bunch which actively promotes the "no tax for millionaires" agenda without shame.
The American Enterprise Institute. ALEC. Working with STATE legislatures to enact the right-wing extremist agenda
They are not satisfied with just dominating the legislative branch of government. They also contribute quite readily to the jucidial-activistv"Federalist Society" to the point that FS members are now enacting a steady series of judicial legislation from the Supreme Court.
The decades-long "mainstream" propaganda machine has been very effective in entering into the consciousness of a very large numbers of the American populace. Welcome to the Koch Brothers paradise. Get used to it..
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And for where it leads, watch the first 15 minutes of the movie 'Elysium.'

(Skip the rest, it just turns into another 'invulnerable hero cannot be stopped' action flick.)
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And for where it leads, watch the first 15 minutes of the movie 'Elysium.'

(Skip the rest, it just turns into another 'invulnerable hero cannot be stopped' action flick.)
I will check it out.

Anyone who thinks the progressive era that we've lived in for the last hundred years or so was oppressive, hasn't seen anything yet............

You will go along with it, you will do as you are told, you will follow the rules and you will be a good little worker bee, lest you upset the Lords of Industry, prompting them to punish us all with extended unemployment.

You will eat what they toss you and you will wipe your chin as you exclaim how "blessed" you are for having it, lest you be accused of being ungrateful for the "bounty" that "God" has placed before you.

You will offer up your posterity to fight their wars from which you stand to gain little or nothing and you will feel patriotic for doing so, lest you be accused and vilified before your countrymen as a traitor.

You will be perfectly free to cry out against injustice, so long as it is the injustices the poor foist against the wealthy that you protest.

You will do all of this or you will be outcast, ostracized and made to believe you have no one to blame but yourself.

This is the "New World Order".

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Old 11-29-2014, 08:07 AM
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And for where it leads, watch the first 15 minutes of the movie 'Elysium.'

(Skip the rest, it just turns into another 'invulnerable hero cannot be stopped' action flick.)
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Your friends on the left are hip to the harmful political mobilization of wealth and subversion of democracy accomplished by the Powell Memorandum. The right, on the other hand, either applauds it or is in denial about it. So there's not a lot to discuss. Except perhaps to ask if anyone has drawings for building a guillotine....
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Anyone who spouts off about the mainstream media outlets being in the tank for liberals needs to read this.
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So, if Powell describes labor unions and collective bargaining as essential to freedom and prosperity, then why is there such animosity towards them in todays conservative movement?

Because he entrusted corporate executives and business owners to safeguard such Democratic liberties.

This is why it will be such an oppressive disaster to leave it to such unelected and oligarchical people to safeguard our freedom.

THEY DO NOT LIKE DEMOCRACY. THEY ARE AS FOND OF DISTRIBUTED POLITICAL POWER AS THEY ARE OF DISTRIBUTED WEALTH.

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