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DrALJONES (draljones@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 23-Feb-2026 19:59:21 JST DrALJONES

This current phase of US fascism was 50 yrs in the planning.
Up till the 1970s, US oligarchs had tolerated some democracy, but the 1960s screamed "guillotines!".
What Powell & Rockefeller called a dangerous "excess of democracy" had to be dismantled.
They started with higher education & the media, then the courts...
Koch link:
MacLean Democ in chains (source of quote below)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_CnzsSeJyU
Powell link:
https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/an-excess-of-democracy-how-corporations-killed-the-campus,15165
#USPol #EUPol #PowellMemo #Fascism #Racism #Democracy .
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1. THE FAR RIGHT 1973: "CONSPIRATORIAL SECRECY AT ALL TIMES" "The cause needed 'an effective counterintelligentsia' to transform 'the way people think about government’... "seed a new crop of surrogates who could be 'indoctrinated' with compelling arguments & spread them" "If the job was done right, this new 'vast network of political power will be the Establishment"
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2. Nancy MacLean -Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America
  
  Nancy MacLean is an award-winning scholar of the twentieth-century U.S., whose most recent book, Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s...
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  An 'excess of democracy': How corporations killed the campus
  
  In 1971, a small band of "forgotten" businessmen fought off the enemy – radical academics et al – and won the day… and the future.

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