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April 28, 2015 by Ted 25 Comments

All About Fascism, Oligarchy & Plutocracy in America

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  1. Edward Black says

    April 28, 2015 at 9:08 pm

    Do corporations and the corporate and billionaire class control the state?
    The state being: the military, the police, the courts and the government?
    Do corporations and the billionaire class control these institutions? I’d
    argue yes.
    In a somewhat meaningful democracy the people would control the
    government… but do the people control it? No. Of course not. Anyone with
    their eyes open knows that.

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  2. Michael Tackett says

    April 28, 2015 at 10:06 pm

    Fascism was created to. Give more power to the elite by using the state.

    Americans sadly do not get riled up enough to makea a real change. When the
    economy goes under, the gop and their voters will have the proverbial blood
    on their hand. 

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  3. No Way says

    April 28, 2015 at 10:07 pm

    I love everything about this. Right on point.

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  4. judyleasugar97 says

    April 28, 2015 at 10:14 pm

    So WHY are we still giving our consumer dollars to these fascist
    billionaires? Boycott the big corporations! Don’t put your money in big
    banks (try a credit union)!

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  5. Eero Haapala says

    April 28, 2015 at 10:38 pm

    Abolish Citizens United. Cut the corporate welfare at the Pentagon. Abolish
    NSA mass surveillance & illegal drone warfare. Cut taxpayer-funded welfare
    handouts to Big Oil. Audit the fed. Repeal the 2001 Bush tax cuts for the
    rich. Drop Obamacare then enact universal single payer medicare for all.
    FDR-style infrastructure investment to update derelict roads, bridges,
    build renewable energy sources, create millions of jobs & stimulate
    consumer spending. Warren/Sanders 2016.

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  6. Deadbeat Pennyless says

    April 28, 2015 at 11:22 pm

    “Corporations”, “Oligarchy”, “Plutocracy” are all euphemisms. Hartmann
    doesn’t dare expose the real power structure in the USA today. He is a
    typical Left-wing *GATEKEEPER*.

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  7. gary roberts says

    April 29, 2015 at 12:00 am

    Two camps of extremists complaining that the other is extreme…how
    amusing.

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  8. D Debeli says

    April 29, 2015 at 12:09 am

    You are one of the smartest people in the US mr. Hartmann. I admire you.

    Reply
  9. Smiling Aussie says

    April 29, 2015 at 1:04 am

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  10. Jordan Brown says

    April 29, 2015 at 1:18 am

    Wolf-Pac or Move to Amend.

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  11. tony lloyd says

    April 29, 2015 at 1:32 am

    I wonder what the world would be like today if Wallace had carried the vice
    presidential nomination in ’44. He probably would of got assassinated
    knowing how the American political system operates.

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  12. The Man says

    April 29, 2015 at 2:20 am

    capitalism is the best system. the problem is that it is an economic system
    not a political system. it is not a system of governance. and its not
    perfect. adam smith even writes it is not perfect and needs regulation.
    when the super rich fail, as they do, and then the poor bail them out,
    thats not capitalism. the super rich will tout individualism all day long
    but the fact is the only individuals are the poor while the super rich are
    enormously well connected and unionized. its like a collective pack of
    predators keeping their prey in individual stalls and when one cow stops
    giving them milk they call it lazy and stop feeding it. when the cow is
    like, this is some bullshit the other cows are like no you dont understand,
    just make some more milk and perhaps the predators will let you out of your
    stall so you can go graze in the open pasture.

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  13. Wolter Bijleveld says

    April 29, 2015 at 2:29 am

    What is your obsesion with the Koke bros.? You ignore the bankers (big
    oil), the Rothchilds (George Soros), Holywood and the perpetual war mongers
    who really spend our money. The Koke bros have a billion to spend on
    politics? That is peanuts today. It’s not about progressives and
    conservatives or dems and reps. These people play both sides. The people
    you vote for are really bought off and now are just puppets for them. They
    have more money than Jesus. They can buy anyone they want. It would be nice
    if you could take off your democrat bifocals and look at the whole picture.

    Reply
  14. marisafari says

    April 29, 2015 at 2:57 am

    I guess davos wouldn’t agree with nick hanauer’s pitchforks coming for
    plutocrats article

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  15. WiseMonkey says

    April 29, 2015 at 3:54 am

    All About Fascism, Oligarchy & Plutocracy in America

    Reply
  16. Steve Neubeck says

    April 29, 2015 at 3:57 am

    It was Tim Berners-Lee who gave us www. at the Publicly funded CERN

    Reply
  17. thomhartmann says

    April 29, 2015 at 4:55 am

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  18. Paul Saulnier says

    April 29, 2015 at 4:59 am

    Hmmm . interesting

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  19. Allanontheweb says

    April 29, 2015 at 5:38 am

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  20. Aminor Amajor says

    April 29, 2015 at 6:05 am

    After they’ve trashed USA, they’ll have to go somewhere else. Where?
    Ukraine? Nowhere better than USA for them. Let them trash USA because they
    can. After that they’ve nowhere to go either. 

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  21. WiseMonkey says

    April 29, 2015 at 7:04 am

    All About Fascism, Oligarchy & Plutocracy in America

    Reply
  22. Tim Riggle says

    April 29, 2015 at 7:45 am

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  23. M Ch says

    April 29, 2015 at 8:34 am

    Oh common, that’s not “the end of the democracy” because your democracy is
    mostly about turf war between Bloods and Crips, and that is not going to
    change, the show will go on!
    Koch brothers do not aspire “to wrestle the power from the people”, they
    only want to make the Jewish oligarch to give them some power that the
    later keep totally to themselves and refuse to share. They want Soros,
    Rothschilds, Rockefellers to give them the piece of power over Americans
    that they believe is due! There is nothing new about it! That was going on
    in the world at large for much longer that American “democracy” even
    existed: new rich demanding their share of the power from the old rich!

    P.S. Stop worrying about it, it’s totally beyond and above your level!

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  24. Steve Neubeck says

    April 29, 2015 at 9:13 am

    Reply
  25. conrad152 says

    April 29, 2015 at 9:41 am

    Really really interesting.

    Reply

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