A natural progression has arisen 40 years after billionaires laid plans for a cultural revolution, in large part by using fake organizations of philanthropy – replete with tax breaks – to fund it. It was a masterful — even outrageous — plan, to make American taxpayers help finance a campaign against us. Most of their political activities were then and still are written off as tax-deductible “philanthropy.” With this bitter irony, I am sure a number of the corporate moguls “laugh their asses off,” to put it crudely.
In the late 1900s, it was Richard Mellon Scaife and later John M. Olin, who directed and slipped “Trojan-horses” of libertarian ideas into academic institutions, think tanks, courts, statehouses, Congress and finally, the presidency, most notably with the election of 2000. Now the Koch brothers engineer, through semi-annual secret meetings and Citizen United tax-free organizations, most of the efforts to topple democracy.
But the relentless exploitation of Americans did not end there. Add to that the outright fraud and thievery by Wall Street of billions of dollars, taken from unsuspecting investors, retirement funds, and consumers. Bogus investments and the effects of the 2008 recession trashed retirement accounts for many Americans. Then their allies, the Bush administration, gave them taxpayer money to bail out the dire impacts of their grifting, followed by the bankruptcy-fearing Obama administration.
The events have been…