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Tracking the Growth of American Authoritarianism

“Can There Really Be Fascist People In A Democracy?”
Libertarians are stealthily taking over America.
Since the 1971 Powell Memo, America has moved closer and closer to Fascism.

 

American Socialism – Equally Empowering and Protecting All US Citizens

Posted on February 15, 2019 by Andy Hailey

(A cycle of building, destroying, and now renewing/expanding) Even before FDR’s socially responsible New Deal and laws passed since, corporations and excessively wealthy individuals have been stealthily working to put our democracy in chains by neutering the Federal government, eliminating … Continue reading →

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Privatizing Publicly Funded Resources Abuses Citizens – It Puts Profit Before People

Posted on May 9, 2018 by Andy Hailey

Putting profit before people has led to decades of poisoning our air, our water and our soil. Some of this abuse has resulted from privatization of public resources. Blind allegiance to profit has also led to torturing of gifted individuals … Continue reading →

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Why Privatize Social Security? More Wealth Transfer for the 1%

Posted on December 4, 2016 by Andy Hailey

Right-wing authoritarian Republican politicians, like Paul Ryan, believe that the individual is solely responsible for their success or failure. Their moral righteousness is based on one’s self-discipline and ability to plan for every contingency. That leaves the 99% to fend … Continue reading →

  • Related Web Article: <a href="http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/your-road-map-to-paul-ryan-s-plan-to-privatize-medicare" target="_blank" title"The reality is that changes to Medicare made by Obamacare actually made the program more solvent, not less">Your Road Map To Paul Ryan's Plan To Privatize Medicare</a>
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Excessive Corporate Intrusion Is a Major Factor in Maximizing Inequality

Posted on May 30, 2014 by Andy Hailey

When FDR and LBJ passed laws which maximized equality by providing protections such as Social Security, the right to unionize, and medicare, corporations only saw added costs for doing business. While America helped rebuild the world after WWII, these costs … Continue reading →

  • Related Web Article: <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/05/everything-you-need-to-know-about-millennials-political-views/371053/" title="Their results give us an especially illuminating window into the strategies that progressive Democratic organizations and candidates may use this fall to win support from this important electoral bloc." target="_blank">How to Win Millennials: Equality, Climate Change, and Gay Marriage</a>, <a href="http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/23804-oligarchy-as-american-as-poisoned-apple-pie" title="What the Constitution is to States, TPP is to Nations" target="_blank">Oligarchy: As American as Poisoned Apple Pie</a>
  • Related WAWG Article: <a href="https://the-wawg-blog.org/tag/powell-memo/" title="Koch Brothers, ALEC, ..." target="_blank">All posts on The Powell Memo</a>
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Right-wing Authoritarian Neoliberal Ideology Has Prevented Universal Health Care for Americans

Posted on April 19, 2014 by Andy Hailey

Economic neoliberalism, or free market fundamentalism, has been at work for decades in America transferring more and more wealth from the masses to the ONE%. Privatization of all that is public (SS, Medicare, pensions, etc.), or putting it on the … Continue reading →

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Maximizing Profit Morfs The Fourth Estate Into Stooge for Hire.

Posted on December 13, 2013 by Andy Hailey

For some time, I have been promoting the use of profit-free media for news. There is a long list of such sources in the sidebar of this blog which I update frequently. As I experienced recently, Twitter was the major … Continue reading →

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Corporate Governance Will Transfer More Wealth If Social Security Is Privatized

Posted on February 18, 2013 by Andy Hailey

(This blog posting comes from portions of Who Stole the American Dream by Hedrick Smith.) The history of the transition from company funded pensions to employee self-directed 401Ks and the limited success of 401Ks shows vividly that the destruction of … Continue reading →

  • Supporting Articles: <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123137714796462913.html" title="After watching her account drop 44% last year ..." target="_blank">Big Slide in 401(k)s Spurs Calls for Change</a>, <a href="http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/14639-corporations-write-our-laws-and-profit-from-human-misery" title="Corporations write our laws and determine how we structure our society. We have all become victims. " target="_blank">Corporations Write Our Laws and Profit From Our Misery</a>, <a href="http://www.alternet.org/economy/401k-revolution-and-inequality" title="median retirement savings today stand at a paltry $44,000." target="_blank">How America’s 401(k) Revolution Rewarded the Rich and Turned the Rest of Us Into Big Losers</a>
  • Related WAWG Article: <a href="https://the-wawg-blog.org/?p=7099" title="What we need, instead of privatization, is additional revenue" target="_blank">Corporate Governance of Social Security & Medicare – An Abominable Idea for Senior Welfare</a>
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Corporate Governance Erodes Democracy As Education is Privatized

Posted on February 10, 2013 by Andy Hailey

Corporate governance destroys democracy by replacing accountability to citizens with accountability to a few major stockholders and boards of directors who want reduced costs and increased profits. This change in accountability means moral values, such as protecting and empowering/educating citizens, … Continue reading →

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The Price of Our Freedoms – Our Children’s Lives?, Our Representative Government?

Posted on December 24, 2012 by Andy Hailey

Based on the recent writings of Professor George Lakoff and the Newtown statements from our President, I posted the following to FB to contrast the conservative without conscience (CWC) and progressive moral values on the recent shootings in Newtown, CT. … Continue reading →

  • Related Web Article: <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/01/the-geography-of-gun-deaths/69354/" target="_blank" title="Factors like drug use, stress levels, and mental illness are much less significant than might be assumed">The Geography of Gun Deaths</a>, <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/9414540/A-history-of-mass-shootings-in-the-US-since-Columbine.html" target="_blank" title="Since 1999 - Columbine">A history of mass shootings in the US since Columbine</a>
  • Supporting Articles: <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/george-lakoff/the-price-of-our-freedom_b_2314658.html" target="_blank" title="Democracy, as the president has said, begins with the people taking care of one another responsibly, importantly through government as an instrument of freedom.">The Price of Our Freedom</a>, <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/george-lakoff/michigans-new-corporate-law_b_2292001.html" target="_blank" title="the new Michigan law is a corporate servitude law">Michigan's New Corporate Servitude Law: It Takes Away Worker Rights</a>
  • Recent NPR Story: <a href="http://www.npr.org/2012/12/20/167694808/assault-style-weapons-in-the-civilian-market" target="_blank" title="turn to the much bigger, much more profitable American civilian market and make a lot more money doing that.">Assault-Style Weapons In The Civilian Market</a>
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Disaster Relief Is Immoral and Requires Privatization – Who Believes This and Why?

Posted on November 5, 2012 by Andy Hailey

Here is a portion of the transcript from the June 13, 2011, Republican presidential primary debate where Romney is asked about transferring disaster relief to the states – a conservative, anti-federal government idea. KING: What else, Governor Romney? You’ve been … Continue reading →

  • Supporting Articles: <a href="http://www.nationofchange.org/global-warming-systemically-caused-hurricane-sandy-1351918218" title="Global warming systemically caused Hurricane Sandy" target="_blank">Systemic vs. Direct Causation Relative to Global Warming</a>
  • Related Web Article: <a href="http://www.nationofchange.org/you-re-your-own-society-1352471262" title="No man is an island, or every man for himself? Yesterday, America decided which would be its watchword." target="_blank">The On Your Own Society</a>, <a href="http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/12756-the-gops-privatization-pathology" title="It's a bit of a mystery, calling more for psychological inquiry than policy analysis." target="_blank">The GOP's Privatization Pathology</a>
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