Robert Reich poses a rhetorical
question in Salon.
"Suppose a small
group of extremely wealthy people sought to systematically destroy the U.S. government
by (1) finding and bankrolling new candidates pledged to shrinking and
dismembering it; (2) intimidating or bribing many current senators and
representatives to block all proposed legislation, prevent the appointment of
presidential nominees, eliminate funds to implement and enforce laws, and
threaten to default on the nation’s debt; (3) taking over state governments in
order to redistrict, gerrymander, require voter IDs, purge voter rolls, and
otherwise suppress the votes of the majority in federal elections; (4) running
a vast PR campaign designed to convince the American public of certain big
lies, such as climate change is a hoax, and (5) buying up the media so the
public cannot know the truth.
"Would you call
this treason?
"If not, what
would you call it?
"And what would
you do about it?"
Actually, I would call it a
coup.
But the real question that Reich
didn’t ask and the one that begs to be answered is how on Earth can a
population, only a few years removed from the worst economic meltdown since the
Great Depression and still suffering from its effects, continue to fall for such an
obviously treasonous act by said small group of wealthy people?
The words of the incomparable W.C. Fields seem a fitting answer to that rhetorical question.
“Never give a sucker an even
break.”
Link: http://www.salon.com/2013/07/12/has_the_1_percent_committed_treason_partner/
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