Daily Take: Alexander Hamilton’s Nightmare Realized: How Billionaires Hijacked America
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Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 15 November 2024
⏱️ 11 minutes
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From the Founders’ Vision to the Billionaire Takeover of Democracy
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| 1:05.6 | alexander hamilton thought he and you know the others who wrote the Constitution, had it all figured out. |
| 1:12.2 | He and his colleagues never imagined that a group of billionaires would spend 43 years and billions of dollars to seize the U.S. Supreme Court, which would then legalize political bribery. |
| 1:23.0 | They never conceived of a foreign billionaire family coming to America and building a nationwide media ecosystem |
| 1:29.4 | that was capable of convincing Americans that up was down, wrong was right, and a convicted |
| 1:34.5 | fraudster and rapist would be a noble president. They would have laughed at you if you told them |
| 1:39.6 | that the richest man in the world would come from apartheid South Africa to hook up with a grifter |
| 1:43.9 | billionaire to |
| 1:44.7 | become co-president. In Federalist 68, Hamilton wrote, quote, the process of election affords a moral |
| 1:51.7 | certainty that the office of president will never fall to the lot of any man who is not an imminent |
| 1:57.0 | degree endowed with the requisite qualifications. |
| 2:09.4 | Indeed, while a knave or a rogue or a traitor may fool enough people to even ascend to the office of mayor or of a major city or governor of a state, |
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