Daily Take: The New America 2.0 is Not a Democracy; it’s an Oligarchy
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Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 3 July 2024
⏱️ 7 minutes
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The only remedy at this late stage in this 50+ yearlong campaign to remake America is a massive revolt this fall at the ballot box, turning Congress over to Democrats while holding the White House.
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| 0:00.0 | The New America 2.0 is not a democracy. It's an oligarchy. |
| 0:08.0 | Kevin Roberts, who heads the Heritage Foundation largely responsible for Project 2025 |
| 0:14.3 | just implicitly threatened Americans that if we don't allow him and his hard right |
| 0:19.4 | movement to complete their transformation of America from a Democratic republic into an |
| 0:24.3 | authoritarian state there will be blood in the streets. We're in the process of |
| 0:30.3 | taking this country back he told a TV audience adding the reason they are |
| 0:34.9 | apoplectic right now the reason that so many anchors on MS NBC for example |
| 0:39.3 | are losing their minds daily is because our side is winning. And so I come full circle on this response. |
| 0:46.8 | I just want to encourage you with some substance that we are in the process of the second American |
| 0:52.4 | Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be." |
| 0:58.0 | He's not wrong. |
| 1:02.0 | America has been changed as a result of a series of corrupt rulings by Republicans, |
| 1:07.4 | exclusively. |
| 1:08.4 | Not one of these rulings has been joined by a Democratic appointee, which have changed America's legal and political systems themselves. |
| 1:16.0 | As Robert's notes, this is really the largest issue we all face, and our mainstream media are totally failing to either recognize or clearly articulate how radically different our country is now. |
| 1:28.0 | How far the Republicans on the court have dragged us away from both our founder's vision and the norms and |
| 1:34.6 | standards of a functioning modern Democratic republic. First in a series of |
| 1:40.7 | decisions, the first written by that notorious |
| 1:43.3 | corporatist Louis Powell of Powell fame. |
| 1:46.9 | Republicans on the court have functionally |
| 1:48.8 | legalized bribery of politicians and judges |
| 1:52.1 | by both the morbidly rich and massive corporations. |
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