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The Hartmann Report

Daily Take: Is the Morbidly Rich’s “Brilliance” Just a Threat to the Republic?

The Hartmann Report

Thom Hartmann

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🗓️ 15 December 2025

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

In 11 months, we’ll have an opportunity to retrieve our democracy from the clutches of the morbidly rich, the ideologues who deify them (and have for millennia), & their bought-&-paid-for politicians…

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www. www. get native pat dot com slash hartman is the morbidly rich rich's brilliance

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just a threat to the republic the idea is as old as western civilization the morbidly rich are born to rule the rest of us.

1:14.3

And now with a billionaire as president, 13 billionaires in his cabinet, right-wing billionaires

1:19.2

installing and spiffing Republican Supreme Court justices, it's become the operational

1:24.3

assumption of the GOP. Older societies used religion to rationalize it

1:30.0

from the divine rate of kings to Confederate plantation owners invoking Bible verses, both Old and

1:35.6

New Testament, to justify oligarchy and slavery. The scientific revolution era from Edison to Einstein

1:43.2

shifted the explanation from God

1:45.9

wills that the rich should rule to rich people have superior genes and should therefore be in

1:51.4

charge of everything. Herbert Spencer, who coined the phrase survival of the fittest in the late

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