Hartmann Report - One of the right’s favorite fever dreams over the years has been to gut the US Constitution of many of its checks and balances and officially turn America into a legal oligarchy with a strongman presidency, nearly bulletproof legal immunity for the morbidly rich, and full personhood for corporations. As of this month, it’s no longer just a dream.
The American Legislative Exchange Council completed their winter “National Policy Summit” get-together in Scottsdale, Arizona last week with Speaker Mike Johnson as its keynote speaker. This is the group that’s brought “Stand Your Ground” and voter suppression “model legislation” to Red states across America and, for fifty years now, has been bringing together corporate lobbyists and Republican state-level politicians to make state after state more corporate- and billionaire-friendly.
At this recent meeting they rolled out a new strategy to convene a Constitutional Convention, so they can finally remake America in their own image: they’re going to try to get the six corrupt Republicans on the Supreme Court — who all have direct or indirect ties back to ALEC, its related/affiliated organizations, and/or its funders — to go along with it.
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Now one of the most direct and specific warnings of the corrupt intent pf those who seek to destroy our country from within.
Semper Paratus
I guess we are too many generations away from World War II. Forgotten is the fear of authoritarianism and Fascism.
No concept by U.S. citizens of the ‘Fifth Column’
How many will fail to recognize it hitting them in the face.
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