Right-Wing Influencers Have Flooded Minneapolis -- WIRED

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6. This has been going on for fifty or sixty years. It isn't new.

These fascists started with the "think tanks" like Heritage in the early 1970s promoting their bogus "position papers" as a means of polluting political discourse to favor the rich at the expense of everybody else. The Reagan administration letting the Fairness Doctrine expire was the absolute catalyst for the destruction of political discourse and the media, with Murdoch being permitted to buy American media and the right-wing internet being the ultimate result.

There are millions upon millions of people who have been brainwashed by these filthy rich people like Koch, like Murdoch, like the Bradleys, and the rest of them solely to distract them while picking their pockets.