Part 4 of a 10-part Series: Federalists and Dominionists Take Over the Courts The appearance of influence or access, furthermore, will not cause the electorate to lose faith in our democracy. Former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy in Citizens United v FEC Most of us are no longer surprised by the plutocrat-friendly decisions emanating from […]
Month: January 2023
A Butterfly Flaps Its Wings: From the Powell Memo to the Eastman Memo and January 6th
Part 3 of a 10-part Series: The Powell Memo Let Loose “All for ourselves, and nothing for other people, seems in every age of the world, to have been the vile maxim of the masters of mankind.” Adam Smith, 1776 The wealthy, business elites and the corporatocracy took the advice from Powell’s memo and ran […]
A Butterfly Flaps Its Wings: From the Powell Memo to the Eastman Memo and January 6th
Part 2 of a 10-part Series: The Origins of Anti-Democratic Sentiment in America “The property which every man has in his own labour, as it is the original foundation of all other property, so it is the most sacred and inviolable.” Adam Smith, 1776 An event does not occur in a vacuum, and the […]
