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Jay Gould: The project to replace the American republic with a corporate oligarchy has been up and running for a long time

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Thom Hartmann: The project to replace the American republic with a corporate oligarchy has been up and running for a long time.

He says it began in 1971 when Lewis Powell , then a wealthy tobacco lawyer, wrote a memo laying out the case for an American oligarchy.

Hartmann says the money power has settled on cruelty, meanness and misogyny as its primary weapons.

The American oligarchy is now established. It is in charge of our law and our politics. Even if the actuarial tables catch up with the president-elect, the vice president-elect is completely a creature of the modern manifestation of the money power, of the tech-bro messiahs, of the Thiels and the Musks. History tells us that the grip of the money power takes generations to be broken, and that no victory over it ever has been permanent..