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bobbieinok

(12,858 posts)
Tue Jul 21, 2020, 04:27 PM Jul 2020

How long have RW groups been planning take-over? The Family (JSharlot) WWII era, Weyrich et.al 1970s

Wasn't there a RW group post WWI (US industrialists involved)?

IMHO there have been groups seriously organizing since FDR's time. I think he blocked plans. And his govt programs created a strong middle-class.

With Reagan in 1980 a different public tone was created and developed--zero concern for the community, each one works to get as much $$ as possible and set up major barriers for evetyone else

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How long have RW groups been planning take-over? The Family (JSharlot) WWII era, Weyrich et.al 1970s (Original Post) bobbieinok Jul 2020 OP
Same idiots, different decade. C_U_L8R Jul 2020 #1
The counter culture swung our society to the left.... Thomas Hurt Jul 2020 #2
There was a coup attempt in 1933. Quemado Jul 2020 #3
General Smedley Butler to the rescue. LastDemocratInSC Jul 2020 #4
The cover-up was massive. Media at the time was mostly Republican. empedocles Jul 2020 #6
The right-wing idiots are not smart enough Chainfire Jul 2020 #5
But the big money boys? They want much more money, subservient population. THEY ARE SMART bobbieinok Jul 2020 #7

C_U_L8R

(45,020 posts)
1. Same idiots, different decade.
Tue Jul 21, 2020, 04:28 PM
Jul 2020

Just imagine how much better the world would be without these jerks. So much better!

Thomas Hurt

(13,903 posts)
2. The counter culture swung our society to the left....
Tue Jul 21, 2020, 04:31 PM
Jul 2020

when it diminished the right resurgence began with Reagan. We have been on the path to christofascist theocracy since.

empedocles

(15,751 posts)
6. The cover-up was massive. Media at the time was mostly Republican.
Tue Jul 21, 2020, 06:20 PM
Jul 2020

' Burk, Robert F. (1990). The Corporate State and the Broker State: The DuPonts and American National Politics, 1925–1940. Harvard University Press. ISBN 0-674-17272-8.'

[As I recall reports were that DuPont, Birdseye, etc. raised $60 million in 2008? dollars, to finance General Butler in the planned coup attempt. Butler famously went public. Thereafter, the coup leaders were concerned with the cover-up. They were quite successsful. Congressional testimony was secret, and sealed for 30 years, [what survived?]

Burk, cited above, said ' . . . the accusations were of a mixture of actual attempts at influence peddling by small groups of financiers with ties to veterans' organizations.'

Chainfire

(17,636 posts)
5. The right-wing idiots are not smart enough
Tue Jul 21, 2020, 05:21 PM
Jul 2020

to organize what they dream about. I have followed a bunch of them on the net for over ten years and I can tell you that they live in fantasy worlds and have no conception of what it would take to organize a Sunday School picnic, much less an armed revolt.

bobbieinok

(12,858 posts)
7. But the big money boys? They want much more money, subservient population. THEY ARE SMART
Tue Jul 21, 2020, 07:07 PM
Jul 2020

Know little about Weyrich, but he appears to have been extremely clever, able to plan far into the future. And remain mostly unknown.

And the group known as the Family. According to Sharlot, they use christianity as the cover to create a world network of business and political and academic leaders to eliminate any vestige of democracy and run the world for their in-group benefit.

The people who started the Family are the ones who are behind the National Prayer Breakfast

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