The Robber Barons Are Back!

[consortiumnews.com]

(Although the plutocratic plan to forcefully overtake the U.S. government failed, the plotters did not give up. That is because they came to realize that they could commit their coup legally. By exploiting lax laws in the political system they could continue to effectively purchase power.

Using paid-off politicians as middlemen, the plutocrats could still get their tax breaks and deregulation. All they needed to do was to get the right politicians in office and the right judges on the courts.)

Many of us today, 7 years after this piece, will argue that it's no longer just the republican party, but both. As Robert Parry has often detailed to us, Aerik Vondenburg here describes the same agenda government uses via the media to manage our perception of a fake reality. When you get down to the 6 "conditioning for the country class" you might find that this Trump administration seems to have accomplished these 6 conditions almost perfectly as this 7 year old piece indicated back then. But as I stated above in other words, it did so with the help of a compliant democratic party unwilling to sincerely fight for a real sense of progressive politics. And these statements by then the 1944 FDR’s Vice President, Henry Wallace now show us this being they can easily be put on the democrats of today also to a large degree.

"The American fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact. Their newspapers and propaganda carefully cultivate every fissure of disunity, every crack in the common front against fascism….

“But always and everywhere they can be identified by their appeal to prejudice and by the desire to play upon the fears and vanities of different groups in order to gain power. …

“They claim to be super-patriots, but they would destroy every liberty guaranteed by the Constitution. They demand free enterprise, but are the spokesmen for monopoly and vested interest. Their final objective toward which all their deceit is directed is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection."

Do I need to repost Caitlin Johnstone's 1-2 punch article?

We are indeed in a war. And it's being waged against us, the people, by the oligarchy with the help of our own government and the media.