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Is the Reason Some Wealthy People Oppose Democracy Deeper Than We Think?
 If working people were a bit more desperate about their economic situations, some conservative thinkers & the uber wealthy believe, they'd be less likely to organize, protest, or even vote. Why are America's plutocrats funding efforts to weaken our democracy and replace it with plutocracy and oligarchy? Is it just about money? Or is there something much deeper that most Americans rarely even consider? An extraordinary investigative report from documented.net tells how morbidly rich families, their companies, and their personal foundations are funding efforts to limit or restrict democracy across the United States.In an article co-published with The Guardian, they noted: Read more at HartmannReport.com. -Thom |
Wednesday's Daily Stack 
Hour Two: Is the Reason Some Wealthy People Oppose Democracy Deeper Than We Think?
Quote: " The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the anti-war left and black people. We knew we couldn't make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting people to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, break up their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did." - John Ehrlichman. Quote: " The occupation of an hairdresser, or of a working tallow-chandler, cannot be a matter of honour to any person - to say nothing of a number of other more servile employments. Such descriptions of men ought not to suffer oppression from the state; but the state suffers oppression, if such as they, either individually or collectively, are permitted to rule. In this you think you are combating prejudice, but you are at war with nature" - Edmund Burke.
How does America deal with 1 in 10 people ending up with long covid? And how crazy is it that DeSantis wants to ban masks in Florida?
Tweet: " @MichaelSteele on video showing police ambushing unarmed Black man in DeSantis voter fraud crackdown: "...the governor believes that he can just sort of willy-nilly circumvent because he doesn't like the outcome of the voters' choice to re-empower felons... [video]" by The ReidOut.
Hour Three: How is that Jim Jordan is the chair of the judiciary committee?- Dean Obeidallah, Host of Dean Obeidallah show weekdays 6-9PMET @SXMProgress Radio Ch127 / Columnist - CNN.com / Contributor - The New Republic 
Law: " 14th Amendment Section 3, July 9, 1868 " No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability".
Crazy Alert! GOP wants food made of aborted fetus' labeled even though none exists
200+ millionaires in Davos want the uber wealthy taxed now!
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