This is the Tom Hartman program.

And greetings my friends, patriots, lovers of democracy, truth and justice,

believers in peace, freedom, and the American way.

We've got a lot on the program today.

So why don't Americans know who's manipulating our political system and why.

That's the headline over at Hartman Report.com today.

I also posted it over on Dailycoats.

Excuse me.

And you know, I've been thinking about this for a while and I've been wanting to put it down on paper and so I finally did yesterday

or put it down into a computer file like I should say these days.

You know, for a long time we've talked about where is the origin of this hyper-racist, nativist,

fascist-loving MAGA faction? fascist loving magga faction that has largely taken over the

Republican Party. Where did it start? Where did this come from? And on this

program and in some of my writings I have pointed to the Brown versus Board of Education ruling by the Supreme Court in 1954

the desegregated America schools or at least said we had to.

They didn't, but you know there was the effect. or at least said we had to.

They didn't, but you know, there was the effect,

that was what it was trying to do.

But that's really only half the story.

The other half of the story almost nobody knows.

And that is that in the 1960s, America was suffering from a very real environmental crisis.

And we were starting to wake up to it.

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