Posted at Hartmann Report on May. 17, 2024
The Last Time Oligarchs Tried to Take Over America It Led to Civil War
Is America in the final stage of the 40-year transition from a forward-looking & still-evolving democratic republic into a white supremacist ethnostate ruled by a small group of fascist oligarchs?
The headline in this week's Fortune reads:
"Billionaire investor Ray Dalio warns U.S. is 'on the brink' and estimates a more than 1 in 3 chance of civil war"
Billionaires and civil war? A billionaire-funded Supreme Court Justice flew the American flag upside down outside his house after January 6th in apparent support of Donald Trump's attempt to overthrow our government.
Americans for Tax Fairness reports that 50 billionaire families have, at this early stage, already injected almost a billion dollars into our political system — the overwhelming majority of it going to Republicans and in support of Donald Trump — in an effort to maintain enough control of our political system that their taxes won't go up. And that total is just what's reported: it doesn't count the billions in unknowable dark money that's sloshing around the system thanks to Citizens United.