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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHow 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
C_U_L8R
(45,020 posts)Just imagine how much better the world would be without these jerks. So much better!
Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)when it diminished the right resurgence began with Reagan. We have been on the path to christofascist theocracy since.
Quemado
(1,262 posts)LastDemocratInSC
(3,649 posts)empedocles
(15,751 posts)' Burk, Robert F. (1990). The Corporate State and the Broker State: The DuPonts and American National Politics, 19251940. 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)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)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