things are at least going the direction planned in spite of many glitches.
Ever heard of the Kochs and other archconservative metamillionaires? If what they've been up to is some huge secret it's because the MSM almost never mentions them. They're extremely powerful, but if you google names like Koch and Mercer (just 2 of MANY) some people are publishing a bit more than before as things get very bad.
In this era, most of America's conservatives, always somewhat anti-government, anti-tax in sympathies, have been turned into a right-wing extremist religious, social and economic movement. This movement was conceived, conspired, and executed by some members of the ultrapowerful ultrawealthy classes we should never have allowed to exist.
Eisenhower and Justice Louis Brandeis warned us of what they were observing in the 1940s and 50s, but the move to take over our democracy really only starting getting formidably organized in the 1970s as wealth increasingly accumulated, and exploded in the 1990s-to present.
And now that victory is finally possibly within their reach, their plans are currently foiled by the intense corruption and incompetence of congress and executive branch that is their creation. Also by the mindless rebellion of the trumpsters, who know something's terribly wrong but don't know who their enemies are.
And also by the Democratic Party and Democrats they failed to corrupt into the ruins we see on the right.
"The only legitimate functions of government are protection of person and property." Charles Koch on one of the extremely rare occasions that he revealed his plans in public.
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