A note of caution from Thom Hartmann: [View all]

[CaliforniaPeggy]

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Democracies don’t turn into fascist oligarchies by being invaded or losing wars. It always happens from within, and is always driven buy an alliance between demagogic, populist politicians and some of the very wealthiest people in society.

Step one for these right wing politicians and the morbidly rich who support them is to pit one group of people within the nation against others: Marginalize and demonize minorities, deny them access to the levers of democratic power while openly attacking them for trying to usurp the privileges and prerequisites of the majority.

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And now Republicans and the oligarchs aligned with them are trying to pull it off here in the United States.

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Standing against them is the Democratic Party, although the Fritz Tysons of today’s America, billionaire members of the Koch network, are doing everything they can to prevent Democrats from ensuring fair and honest elections in 2022 and 2024 by buying off Joe Manchin and others.

Those Republican voter suppression and voter nullification laws being passed by state after state are essential to their final take-down of the Democratic Party.

Meanwhile, the billionaire Murdoch family’s Fox News is working as hard as it can to make Black people and Democrats 2021’s version of Hitler’s 1933 Jews and Socialists.

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The link:https://hartmannreport.com/p/why-fox-news-claims-they-are-taking?r=lxca0&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email&utm_source=copy


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