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This is exactly what I have been saying for years.
The ruling class - including a lot of names we never hear - has studied the 20th century. They have studied liberation movements, and they employ many of the CIA figures who fought them. They have studied Che Guevara and Cesar Chavez, Augusto Pinochet, Henry Kissinger and Allen Dulles. They have access to the reams of covert action strategy developed in the 20th Century.
Bolton let the cat out of the bag when he said that we know how to conduct coups, in a televised interview.
The US ruling class has enough generational wealth to afford both patience and organization: the patience to work for generations in how to seize and hold power, the wealth to buy up independent media and university administrations. The problems we face today were spelled out in detail in the 1971 Powell Memo, and are fleshed out in Project 2025.
https://www.whitehouse.senate.gov/news/speeches/the-scheme-1-the-powell-memo/
The people of the US are now and have been treated by the wealthy like we used to treat people of Eastern Bloc and Third World countries, as pawns to be used and thrown away in the pursuit of power and wealth. This explains the callous sacrifice of MAGAs to covid, and the cynical suppression of human rights in polls, schools, and hospitals.
So-called culture wars are classic divide and conquer tactics, using powerful and legitimate issues of racism, sexism and other issues to monopolize our attention and divert it from the people whose hands are in our pockets robbing and oppressing us. It's necessary to defeat Trump, but the forces behind him will remain threats.
We must walk and chew gum. We must acknowledge and address the special oppressions, including slavery and genocide, of African and indigenous people, and realize that these oppressions are part and parcel of the smothering blanket that lays across all our faces. It's no accident that chattel slavery - the ultimate in stolen labor - and capitalism were birthed together, and that the indigenous peoples of the Americas were extinguished in the pursuit of resources to feed the fossil-powered smoke-belching factories.
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