The Powel memo forget one thing, public sinsibility. For those well off enough to believe the Right's propaganda, they will continue to do so, but the public masses are moving so close to the social/economic edge, many are already falling off or have fallen. This places our country into a condition for revolt. It could happen soon, but it will surely happen when our present children become adults, because we are creating two classes of students in our education system. If they are not taught anything else, emnity to the upper classes is going to be ground in, creating a whole generation of revolutionaries.

The article didn't mention George H. W. Bush. How was he fraudulently elected

We have to stop regarding the New Deal as a Golden Age to which we can only look back wistfully.

Roosevelt was above all anti-communist and anti-socialist. The "socialist" elements of the New Deal were bait in a trap. His legacy includes the permanent militarization of America, the consolidation of American imperialist hegemony abroad, and the omnipresent authoritarianism of the FBI and the other federal police agencies. The "backsliding" of recent Demicrap presidents, including John Kennedy and culminating with Obama, grows directly out of Roosevelt's legacy. The reason why so many people scoff at the very idea of a left-right division is that Roosevelt strove to create a society in which there could be no Left as it was historically understood--and succeeded in doing so.

The fact that all Republicans lie incessantly about the democrats is irrelevant to the truth of this matter. It merely argues for their necessary extermination as a party and a belief system.

There must again be an effective Left in the United States. This means recovering the socialist legacy that died with the New Deal, not trying feebly to recover some whiff of that in-fact-not-so-glorious era. There can be no greater waste of time than fomenting nostalgia for Roosevelt. Alternatively, the United States must fail politically and be replaced by something else.

Reagan's Alzheimer's made him a the perfect empty suit President for the Republican Party to implement Lewis Powell's game plan for a domestic economic coup.

Thank you for pointing out what a bunch of degenerates the Republican party are and how they will stop at nothing including treason to win an election.I will strongly disagree with you on one point,you say wages from the time of Washington until Reagan increased with productivity.Business like today controlled the government from the 1850's to 1929 and wages were stagnant.read some of the great books of the past like Ida tartabuls "Shame of the Cities" talking about the great city slum tenements filled with foreign workers companies imported to keep labor wages in the toilet and the great union busting activities which included killing union organizers.Your statement shows a lack of knowledge of early labor conditions.The rest of your article is historically right on the mark.
And before I get jumped on again by some super nuts yes,the Democratic party due to Republicans putting money first in politics has become almost as corrupt as the Republican party.We have returned to the 1850's.

From: Richard Charnin (Truth Is All)
http://richardcharnin.com/ Richard Charnin (Truth Is All)
Election Fraud (1968-2012) Quantitative Analysis and True Vote Models

I have written two books on election fraud which prove that the recorded vote is always different from the True Vote. Unlike the misinformation spread in the media, voting machine “glitches” are not due to machine failures. It’s the fault of the humans who program them.

In the 1968-2012 Presidential elections, the Republicans won the average
recorded vote by 48.7-45.8%. The 1968-2012 Recursive National True Vote Model indicates the Democrats won the True Vote by 49.6-45.0% - a 7.5% margin discrepancy.

In the 1988-2008 elections, the Democrats won the unadjusted state exit poll aggregate by 52-42% - but won the recorded vote by just 48-46%, an 8% margin discrepancy. The state exit poll margin of error was exceeded in 126 of 274 state presidential elections from 1988-2008. The probability of the occurrence is ZERO.
Only 14 (5%) would be expected to exceed the MoE at the 95% confidence level. Of the 126 which exceeded the MoE, 123 red-shifted to the Republican. The probability P of that anomaly is ABSOLUTE ZERO (5E-106). That is scientific notation for

P= .000000000 000000000 000000000 000000000 000000000 000000000 000000000 000000000 000000000 000000000 000005.

The proof is in the 1988-2008 Unadjusted State Exit Polls Statistical Reference. Not one political scientist, pollster, statistician, mathematician or media pundit has ever rebutted the data or the calculation itself. They have chosen not to discuss the topic. And who can blame them? Job security is everything.

Election forecasters, academics, political scientists and main stream media pundits never discuss or analyze the statistical evidence that proves election fraud is systemic - beyond a reasonable doubt. This site contains a compilation of presidential, congressional and senate election analyses based on pre-election polls, unadjusted exit polls and associated True Vote Models.

Those who never discuss or analyze Election Fraud should focus on the factual statistical data and run the models. If anyone wants to refute the analytical evidence, they are encouraged to do so in a response. Election forecasters, academics and political scientists are welcome to peer review the content.

The bedrock of the evidence derives from this undisputed fact: Final national and state exit polls are always forced to match the recorded vote – even if doing
so requires an impossible turnout of prior election voters and implausible vote shares. All demographic categories are adjusted to conform to the recorded vote. To use these forced final exit polls as the basis for election research is unscientific and irresponsible. The research is based on the bogus premise that the recorded vote is sacrosanct and represents how people actually voted. Nothing can be further from the truth.

It is often stated that exit polls were very accurate in elections prior to 2004 but have deviated sharply from the recorded vote since. That is a misconception. The UNADJUSTED exit polls have ALWAYS been accurate and closely matched the True Vote in 1988-2008. A comparison of ADJUSTED, PUBLISHED exit polls in elections prior to 2004 and PRELIMINARY exit polls since then is like comparing
apples to oranges. The adjusted, published exit polls have always exactly matched the fraudulent RECORDED vote because they have been forced to do so. That's why they APPEAR to have been accurate. The RECORDED vote has deviated from the TRUE VOTE in EVERY election since 1968 –always favoring the Republicans.

The Census Bureau indicates that since 1968 approximately 80 million more votes were cast than recorded. And these were just the uncounted votes. What about the votes switched on unverifiable voting machines and central tabulators? But vote miscounts are only part of the story. The True Vote analysis does not include the millions of potential voters who were illegally disenfranchised and never got to vote.

In 1988, Bush defeated Dukakis by 7 million recorded votes. But approximately 11 million ballots (75% Democratic) were uncounted. Dukakis won the unadjusted exit polls in 24 battleground states by 51-47% and the unadjusted National Exit Poll by 50-49%. The Collier brothers classic book Votescam provided evidence that the voting machines were rigged for Bush.

In 1992, Clinton defeated Bush by 5.8 million recorded votes (43.0-37.5%).
Approximately 9 million were uncounted. The National Exit Poll was forced to match the recorded vote with an impossible 119% turnout of living 1988 Bush voters in 1992. The unadjusted state exit polls had Clinton winning a 16 million vote landslide (47.6-31.7%). The True Vote Model indicates that Clinton won by 51-30% with 19% voting for third party candidate Ross Perot.

In 1996, Clinton defeated Dole by 8.6 million recorded votes (49.3-40.7%); 9 million were uncounted. The unadjusted state exit polls (70,000 respondents) had Clinton winning a 16 million vote landslide (52.6-37.1%). The True Vote Model indicates that Clinton had 53.6%.

In 2000, Al Gore won the 540,000 recorded votes (48.4-47.9%). But the unadjusted state exit polls (58,000 respondents) indicated he won by 50.8-44.4%, a 6 million vote margin. There were nearly 6 million uncounted votes.

The True Vote Model had him winning by 51.5-44.7%. But the Supreme Court awarded the election to Bush (271-267 EV). In Florida, 185,000 ballots were
uncounted. The following states flipped from Gore in the exit poll to Bush in the recorded vote: AL AR AZ CO FL GA MO NC TN TX VA. Gore would have won the election if he captured just one of the states. Democracy died in this election.
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In the 2010 Midterms, the statistical evidence indicates that many elections for House, Senate and Governor were stolen. The Wisconsin True Vote Model contains worksheets for Senate, Governor, Supreme Court and Recall elections. A serious analyst can run them and see why it is likely that they were stolen.

In 2012, Obama won the recorded vote by 51.0-47.2% (5.0 million vote margin) and once again overcame the built-in 5% fraud factor. The 2012 Presidential True Vote and Election Fraud Simulation Model exactly forecast Obama’s 332 electoral vote based on the state pre-election polls. The built-in True Vote Model projected that Obama would win by 56-42% with 391 electoral votes. But just 31 states were exit polled, therefore a comparison between the True Vote Model and the state and national unadjusted exit polls (i.e. the red-shift) is not possible. Obama won the 11.7 million Late votes recorded after Election Day by 58-38%. In 2008, he won the 10.2 million late votes by 59-37%, a confirmation that he was within 2% of his 2008 share.
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http://freepress.org/departmen...
Vote counting company tied to Romney (and Bush)
by Gerry Bello

Looking beyond the well-documented Google choking laundry list of apparent
fraud, failure and seeming corruption that is associated with Hart Intercivic, an ongoing Free Press investigation turned its attention to the key question of who owns the voting machine companies. The majority of the directors of Hart come from the private equity firm H.I.G. Capital. H.I.G. has been heavily invested in Hart Intercivic since July 2011, just in time for the current presidential election cycle. But who is H.I.G Capital?

Out of 49 partners and directors, 48 are men, and 47 are white. Eleven of these men, including H.I.G. Founder Tony Tamer, were formerly employed at Bain and Company, and two of those men, John P. Bolduc and Douglas Berman are Romney bundlers along with former Bain and H.I.G. manager Brian Shortsleeve.

Additionally, four of these men were formerly employed at Booz Allen Hamilton. Bush family friendly Carlyle group is an owner of Booz Allen which also made voting machines for the United States military. Booz Allen was also the key
subcontractor for the controversial PioneerGroundbreaker program, an NSA
data mining operation that gathered information on American citizens until it was shut down and replaced with even more invasive successor programs like MATRIX and Total Information Awareness.
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GLOBAL INTERNET VOTING FIRM BUYS U.S. ELECTION RESULTS REPORTING FIRM – By Bev Harris http://www.blackboxvoting.org

In a major step towards global centralization of election processes, the world’s dominant Internet voting company has purchased the USA’s dominant election results reporting company. snip

The good news is that this firm promptly reports precinct-level detail in downloadable spreadsheet format. As reported by BlackBoxVoting.org in 2008, the bad news is that this centralizes one middleman access point for over 525 jurisdictions in AL, AZ, CA, CO, DC, FL, KY, MI, KS, IL, IN, NC, NM, MN, NY, SC, TX, UT, WA. And growing.
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Thom, someone ought to write the book on 40+ years of Repiglican TREASON and that Ike (well, MAYBE Bush senior) was the last legitimately-elected GOP president. Why not you? If not you, then who?

Justice Lewis Powell and the Rise of the Corporate State, part three of the five-part essay The Myth of Corporate Personhood

Greed Is Good: A 300-Year History of a Dangerous Idea

Lie cheat steal
Conservative values.

This is an older issue than in our lifetime. It all started
hundreds of years ago by a group who want to run the whole show and dominate
the population for their wellbeing. Very slowly, they have implemented whatever
measures in a long-range plan to promote their cause very subtly through
deceitful wording, paradoxical impact, and any opportunity to be untruthful to
the people for their own selfish gains.
The people you see in the public eye are just their puppets and have no
power.

The long process of indoctrination and promotion at investment banks, law firms and accountancy firms - from pee-on up to managing director or partner - is essentially a sociopath verification process. You're made to work impossibly long hours, doing meaningless and then terrible things, all with a toadying gleam in your eye, so the higher ups can verify that you're essentially a fellow sociopath and willing to do anything for more money. Powell's memo is available on the Internet. Search, find and read it. He was a tobacco lawyer, committed to the prospect of lying about cancer for money, lots of money. In short, he was morally insane. In the memo, he says the rich have to defend their "way of life" (good lord) and he didn't just set out to organize a war by a rich, sociopathic elite on everyone else, he wanted to remake America itself, away from its egalitarianism and common decency. Powell didn't just want to remake economic programs, media, SCOTUS and the judiciary, politics, universities, financial institutions, but also churches and the meaning of Christianity itself (which he recognized was a threat to elite power and corruption). That the rich (and our elite institutions like SCOTUS) went along with this Road to Serfdom for everyone else is telling and terrifying. (What happened to the concept of nobility? Or did that never exist?) And we seem to be too stupid these days to understand what has happened and is happening all around us.

It's hard to take this seriously because it is divided along party lines. I don't think we've had a legitimately elected President from either party for decades. Our choices are put on the ballot like a pre-selected menu item: chicken or fish?

"There Has Not Been a Legitimately Elected Republican President Since Dwight Eisenhower"

Who cares? That's a moot point because when Reagan committed treason to steal the pResidency from Carter, the Democrats and Republicans merged into the Democratic-Republican Corporate DUHopoly Party, Inc. All the left-right squabbling you hear is nothing but political studio wrestling to make it appear as if there is a real difference between the two evils.

By the way, I'm trying to remember the last time we had an elected pResident, Congress, Supreme Court, Attorney General or US Military who legitimately represented the people, instead of their global corporate elite sociopathic masters.

I completely reject that Obama has been trying to reject the New Deal. Wrong answer; that would be the Rethuglicans and Tea Baggers since a long time ago until now.
Last time I checked, Obama hasn't advocated for the repeal of SSI, or the minimum wage, or even Medicare from the Great Society. Teapubs? it's their wet dream to get rid of all three, and they are trying!

CEO's are "interesting" and deeply unpleasant people, but the "sociopath" theory is unproven. At minimum the behaviors parallel sociopathic patterns and lack of concern. The thing is, though, that ALL the higher classes as such (i.e. not necessarily every individual) show astonishing ignorance and unconcern as to the tough realities created by their misrule for the classes below them. As for the Lewis Powell phenomenon, I have no idea how influential the pig's memo was. You certainly could argue that the reaction that set in starting with the New Deal and re-exploded in the sixties was going to proceed toward the recent history we have experienced, Powell or no Powell. Nixon, as Noam Chomsky rightly observes, was the last liberal president. Reaganism did hasten our long 30 year nightmare of fundamentalist culture jihads and brutal upward redistribution of wealth. But guess what? The ruling class ran the show in the sixties and before, and never was it a day at the beach! Sometime Thom Hartmann sounds a slightly more radical tone, as if the inescapable heaviness and REALness of it all (the fierce, palpable consequences of the right's surge) were getting to him. But he always goes back to his unshakeable faith that the Democrats, no matter how or how often they demonstrate their loyalty to the one percent, represent our ultimate deliverance. Thom, the best we can hope for from them is that if and when people do pull it together and mount aware, focused, and powerful popular pressure on each "half" of the "business party", it will be the Democrats who will sprint to the head of the popular parade, espousing their loyalty, all the better to get back their grip on the machinery of history and sell us out all over again.

From the start Mr Obama understood his job as the protection of the financial mafiosi. I deeply resent people trying to paint the man as some sort of opponent of economic royalism. He and his party decisively reject the New Deal and the vision of FDR.