Mitch McConnell's Plan to Sabotage Social Security From Within

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57. I keep thinking of the Powell Memo

Multigenerational. When you have massive inherited wealth, you can be patient.
Psy-ops. The Right has access to many decades of applied research into how to manipulate a population. Think of Bolton's confession about knowing how to do coups.
Emotional triggers beat sweet reason 9 times out of 10.
Religion. Faith trumps evidence and justifies extreme behavior.

The 1971 Powell memo, written by a future Supreme Court justice, distilled the sense of threat to power permeating the rich and powerful, and describes the long-term planning to solidify power. Whether today's headlines are a result of the memo or just fellow-traveler consequences, we need to bear these factors in mind.
https://www.whitehouse.senate.gov/news/speeches/the-scheme-1-the-powell-memo