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The Hartmann Report

HOW THE POWER OF ECONOMIC OUTRAGE WILL BEAT MOST OTHER ISSUES

The Hartmann Report

Thom Hartmann

Congress, Economics, Climate Change, The Hartmann Report, Debate, Democracy, America, Thom Hartmann, News

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🗓️ 4 October 2022

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Will the GOP focus on "crime and safety" as an effort to shift American's attention away from abortion rights work? Because the richest 1% owns more than 1/3 of all US wealth, It's going to be hard to stop the stampede towards fascism. Also investigative reporter Greg Palast joins the program about the premiere of his new film -- Vigilante.

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0:46.5

A lot going on in the world today as Herschel Walker is melting down in Georgia.

0:52.0

How will the power of economic outrage beat most other issues?

0:56.5

I want to get into that and the Republican mythology around their ability to be good on the

1:01.4

economy. It's just it's breathtaking. The sales pitch they've sold us. Also will the GOP focus

1:07.4

on crime and safety as an effort to shift Americans attention away from abortion rights? Will that work?

1:14.4

So far it looks like Mitch McConnell has bet something like $50 million on it. We'll see.

1:19.6

Greg Palis is going to drop by at the bottom of the hour. He has a new film out that's premiering

1:24.0

this week in Georgia. It's called vigilante and it's a damn shocking account of how Republicans

1:30.7

are suppressing the vote. I want to get into this new government report that notes that the

1:36.0

richest 1% of Americans now earn now own one third of all the wealth in the United States.

1:45.7

It's breathtaking. Imagine you know 100 kids in a kindergarten class and one of those kids has

1:51.4

33 cookies and more than half of them have two cookies to share between all 50 of them. I mean

1:58.8

that's that's where we're at. But I want to start out with this issue of economic outrage and how

2:05.9

economic outrage basically trumps most other issues. You know crime is a big deal obviously and

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