This was the plan all along - Democratic Underground

Ardent15

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Thu Jan-21-10 07:03 PM
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This was the plan all along

Ever since the crash of 1929, Depression, and New Deal ended the Gilded Age of the late 1800s/early 1900s, the robber barons, corporate raiders, and other big business people have devoted their lives to restoring America to the Gilded Age of inequality and corporate fascism.

It started with the attempt to overthrow the US government and turn it into a full blown fascist dictatorship (one of the players was one Prescott Bush). That didn't work.

They had small victories along the way (Taft-Hartley, stopping Truman from enacting universal health care), but enough businessmen made peace with the New Deal (at least temporarily) that the creation of an American middle class was not stopped.

However, with the Great Society and Vietnam marking the beginning of the end for that age of political moderation and economic progress and equality, the Goldwater movement-which grew out of those who NEVER made peace with the New Deal, even briefly) eventually found their star with Ronald Reagan, who began the modern age of American conservatism, economic inequality, and the return of the corporate takeover of America.

Eventually, with politicians becoming more conservative and consumerism eating away at the increasingly cynical electorate, the Democratic Party made peace with conservatism and corporate inequality, with Bill Clinton adopting an often right-wing (or "centrist") policy.

But Clinton was an enemy of Gingrich and his stooges, and the conservative movement in general made him the perfect scapegoat for America's problems, and because Clinton, though not a liberal, had a "D" next to his title, a failure on his part was a failure for the Democratic Party.

Thus, the destruction of Clinton and Gore, with the phony scandals and the stolen election in 2000, paved the way for the Bush Crime Family, the neo-cons, and the religious right to thoroughouly make a total mockery of American institutions, at home and abroad.

We all know the countless acts of crime and fraud that Bush/Cheney committed, but the worst was the destruction of our democracy through the erosion of the checks and balances in our government, making the executive branch accountable to no one and the other two branches puppets for the executive branch.

Now, with Obama's election, we were promised change. But he is a Beltway politician, and he inherited the mess made by the greatest crime in American history, so his hands were tied in many ways. But even if they weren't, there's no guarantee that Obama-who hired a corporatist DLC man as his Chief of Staff-would be reliable.

The Supreme Court's ruling today was the coup de grace after the destruction of our democracy, our economy, and our nation by insanely greedy people who want power for power's sake-for the last 80 years.

It took them 80 years, but they have thoroughly eroded American institutions of democracy and foundations alright. It might take 80 years to take it back. We'll see.