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The Reopen America “protests” are being funded by Right Wing billionaires and pushed by Fox News and Trump as a legitimate, grassroots movement for their own political gain.

In other words, it’s the Tea Party all over again.

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As I’ve talked about, these “protests” are fabricated pseudo-events paid for by Right Wing billionaires like the DeVos to create propaganda opportunities and the facade of a grassroots movement of Americans demanding to get back to work.
It’s the type of manufactured pseudo-event that America has used around the world to control foreign politics and the type of interference Vladimir Putin has started to use against America. It is a toxic, disgusting practice, and it will get thousands killed if it works.
The wealthy anti-government groups behind the Reopen America “protest” lie are the same who funded and directed the Tea Party “movement” that completed their total takeover of the GOP in 2010 by manufacturing a fake populist movement that Republicans and Fox gifted legitimacy.
It is a tangled propaganda-ed history, these last few years, and this Reopen America fabrication is yet another pseudo-event that Republicans and Fox and probably Putin will use for their own means. It’s a deadly and dangerous cycle.
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Michigan is the epicenter of the Patriot Movement and white supremacist paramilitary groups.

What we're watching with armed men storming the capitol isn't just a bunch of cosplayers. It's an organized terrorist movement.
The chatter among the white supremacist terrorist cells has been for weeks how to use the coronavirus pandemic to their benefit, whether that's weaponizing it or taking advantage of the chaos.

What we're seeing right now isn't just a demonstration. It's practiced and organized.
What you need to understand is these groups have looked and looked and looked for scenarios that bring society to a civil, racial war. A pandemic mixed with an economic collapse, not to mention how Trump has exacerbated cultural divide, looks like a promising thing to them.
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Believing Republicans will willingly, out of conscience or empathy, reward frontline workers or provide economic relief to anyone besides massive corporations is a fool’s game.

Democrats need to embrace public shaming or else this thing is just going nowhere fast.
And this doesn’t mean public shaming as in giving a speech expressing concern. It’s time to call this what it is, Obama telling bank executives he’s the only thing between them and pitchforks. The Democratic Party needs to embrace cultural frustration and quit dancing around it.
The first “stimulus” package was a failure, a band-aid that Trump used as a narcissistic PR move and to funnel money to his friends and the wealthiest companies. People have to stop treating this as politics as usual. This is do or die time for the American people.
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Having states go "bankrupt" means they'll be subjected to total oversight and control by banks and corporations and subject to unbelievable cruelty through austerity.

If you want to see where this is going, spend some time reading up on New York City in 1975.
So much of what we're currently going through with austerity measures and our myth of financial meritocracy originates from that period, where Ayn Rand disciple Alan Greenspan pushed Gerald Ford to tell New York City to "drop dead."
What Trump and Kushner and Republicans are doing by denying federal aid to states is creating a mythical version of "federalism" that manifests a shadow nation that has absolutely nothing to do with helping anyone. This builds off the idea that it's the government's money.
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