Ever since Nixon, the billionaire-funded Republicans, and their propaganda media have moved relentlessly to remake America into nothing but a profit center for the elite- how are ordinary Americans fighting back for justice?

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Thom Hartmann

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🗓️ 29 March 2019

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

National nightmare over, really? Guest-host Jefferson Smith reviews the post Nixon era, rise of the organized Right, and inspires hope in the prospect of despair. - Professor Seth Cotlar sheds light on the history of the Conservative movement. - Ellen Brown of the Public Banking Institute, and prolific author, joins Jefferson Smith for a fascinating conversation about the positive possibilities. Would you move your money to a public bank if there was one close by? Callers respond. - Luke Vargas of Talk Media News is deeply worried about how independent media will be affected by the new European Union copyright law. - In closing, Jefferson gives a rousing summary of the self-serving manipulations of the corrupt flag-wrapped democracy-undermining conservative so-called movement, as he salutes the Progressives who are fighting them in small and large ways.

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0:00.0	This is the Tom Hartman program.
0:17.0	This is the Tom Hartman program that I am Jeff Smith.
0:22.0	Do we have Gerald Ford ready?
0:24.0	My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over.
0:31.0	Our Constitution works. Our great republic is a government of laws and not of men. Here
0:39.6	the people rule. Our long national nightmare is over.
0:47.0	Except that it's not. And except that it wasn't.
0:54.0	And our reliance, our collective national exhale as a country,
1:01.0	are feeling it, oh good. Now everything is over because Nixon has resigned and then
1:08.0	Nixon had been pardoned and therefore there was nothing else to be scared of.
1:14.1	But let's think about what happened in 1973, 1974, and shortly thereafter.
1:22.0	Bartley became the editorial page editor of the Wall Street Journal,
1:25.0	ended up turning that paper in a direction that ended up with him earning the distinction as the most influential editorial page editor of his time.
1:35.0	Phyllis Schlafly blocked passage of the Equal Rights Amendment.
1:40.0	Conservative political action committee might have heard of that, CPAC, it has the conferences every year, it was founded.
1:47.0	The Heritage Foundation was founded.
1:51.0	National Right to Life founded 1974. Focus on the family founded 1977.
1:58.6	1978 was Proposition 13 and the Modern anti-tax, anti-public services movement.
2:07.1	The end of the Nix administration was not the end of the conservative movement.
2:11.7	The end of the Nix administration was not a dawn of
2:14.4	greater transparency. It was not a dawn of addressing climate change. It was not a
2:19.7	flourishing of democracy. It was not an emboldening of the people who have been fighting for the
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