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K.G.C. (WE MUST DISSENT FROM APATHY, INDIFFERENCE)

Nov 23 • 11 tweets • 7 min read

@Thom_Hartmann

Dear America:
On #Thanksgiving22 please open your eyes & mind to the #GOP's Long Con.

"When you compare Trump’s cons with the $50 trillion that the GOP has conned out of the American working class & GIVEN to the top 1% since 1980, Trump looks like a piker." @Thom_Hartmann

https://twitter.com/cameronkgvi/status/1595434239428001793

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2. "[Trump] played his role in that GOP con, of course, setting up the very richest Americans to get more billions of dollars a year in tax breaks for the foreseeable future, but he’s a Johnny-come-lately to the GOP game."

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open.substack.com/pub/thomhartma…

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3. [Republicans/Libertarians] have been running a money-and-power scam on white voters since Nixon’s “Southern Strategy” of the 1960s, a long con that went hypersonic with the election of Ronald Reagan. @Thom_Hartmann
open.substack.com/pub/thomhartma…

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4. "This scam has two parts and one giant mechanism to make it possible.
Those two parts are money and political power, and the mechanism is a nationwide conservative media infrastructure for which there is no match on the Democratic or progressive side." @Thom_Hartmann

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5. "First came the con’s funding and administrative infrastructure. Just like in the movies, a good con requires establishing a strong setup, kind of an alternative world that will bring in the rubes and help you convince them of your alternate reality." @Thom_Hartmann

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6." That alternate reality would eventually include a Republican Party that no longer believes in American democracy, and actively works to promote the interests of billionaire oligarchs and foreign dictators over those of America." @Thom_Hartmann
open.substack.com/pub/thomhartma…

7. It started back in 1971 when tobacco lawyer Lewis Powell wrote a memo to his friend & neighbor Eugene Syndor, the head of the US Chamber of Commerce, warning that the end of capitalism was on the horizon b/c of Nader’s consumer movement & Rachel Carson’s environmental movement

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8. I had posted this @Thom_Hartmann article before the 2022MidTerms and I am reposting to beg Americans to #VolunteerForWarnock and #VoteBlueForWarnock b/c to save our democracy & to fight for the #MiddleClass & #Poor we need the Senate Majority.
Read 👇

https://twitter.com/cameronkgvi/status/1582749947094781952?s=20&t=2GsaSjAZQs52tP_-LLDaGw

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9. After Nixon put Powell on the [SCOTUS] in 1972 & the Court then legalized political bribery in a decision Powell himself authored (Bellotti), billionaires & corporations got to work creating a nationwide political infrastructure that has absolutely no match[...]@Thom_Hartmann

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10. "This new rightwing, billionaire-funded infrastructure has more employees, more offices, and a larger budget than the Republican Party itself." @Thom_Hartmann
open.substack.com/pub/thomhartma…

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"The result of this 50-year-long investment of billions of dollars and millions of person-hours of time has been a complete shift in American politics away from reality and into the realm of dystopian fantasy."

@Thom_Hartmann open.substack.com/pub/thomhartma…

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