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libramoon@diaspora.glasswings.com
libramoon

https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/republican-plot-against-america

The #Republican Party and Their #Billionaire Backers’ Plot Against #America
#THOMHARTMANN

..."Predictably, now that Republicans and the morbidly rich billionaires who own them have broken most of the social contract and systems that held the middle class together (and our middle class has gone from being almost two-thirds of us to fewer than half of us), people are looking for a change.

Politicians have been promising that change—a break with Reagan’s neoliberalism—since the 1990s.

Both Bill Clinton and Barack Obama campaigned on change but missed or ignored most of their chances to stop the disintegration of the middle class, and Bush, Bush Jr., and Trump all doubled down on Reaganomics.

Finally now, many Americans—particularly “low information voters”—have reached a breaking point.

Their kids carry hundreds of thousands of dollars of student debt.
Forty-one percent of American families have more medical debt than they can handle.
As Republican governors roll out voucher programs, our schools are failing and simultaneously under attack from fanatic bigots.
Fox “News” and other hate-driven media have convinced them that the U.S. is being “invaded” by brown-skinned people.
They’re in a constant state of hysteria about CRT, DEI, BLM, Antifa, drag queens, Taylor Swift, and any other boogeymen they can come up with.
These are the people Republicans are counting on to support transforming America from a democratic republic into a strongman authoritarian oligarchy. The GOP’s bet is that if they can keep things broken and bad enough long enough, then people will demand a dictator “who can get things done.”

They even hatched a scheme called Project 2025 that hyper-concentrates political power in the White House, pre-positioning the next Republican president to be America’s first dictator.

The good news is that President Biden is actually doing something about each of these areas where Republicans have worked so hard for the past 43 years to break our country. And his work is producing good fruit: Inflation is down, employment is up, wages are up, and consumer confidence is growing."...

The Republican Party and Their Billionaire Backers’ Plot Against America

The GOP’s bet is that if they can keep things broken and bad enough long enough, then people will demand a dictator “who can get things done.”

escheche@diasp.org
Sylvia J

Food, Farming, and Africa ~ An Open Letter to Bill Gates

https://climateandcapitalism.com/2022/11/17/food-farming-and-africa-an-open-letter-to-bill-gates/

"We, 50 organizations focused on food sovereignty and justice worldwide, want you to know there is no shortage of practical solutions and innovations by African farmers and organizations. We invite you to step back and learn from those on the ground." — Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa

#food #farming #farmers #seeds #sovereignty #africa #letter #billgates #open-letter-to-bill-gates #billionaire #arrogance #hubris #ignorance #capitalism #agra #environment #community

Food, Farming, and Africa: An Open Letter to Bill Gates | Climate & Capitalism

Food sovereignty activists challenge a wealthy white man’s flawed assumptions, hubris, and ignorance

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anonymiss@despora.de
anonymiss

How a #Billionaire’s “Attack #Philanthropy” Secretly Funded #Climate +Denialism and Right-Wing Causes

source: https://www.propublica.org/article/barre-seid-heartland-institute-hillsdale-college-gmu

Last month, The Lever and ProPublica as well as The New York Times detailed how Seid secretly handed a $1.6 billion fortune to a key architect of the Supreme Court’s conservative supermajority that recently eliminated federal protections for #abortion rights.

Steven Baer, a longtime friend and former adviser to Seid, said the businessman has long been “the major patron” for the Heartland Institute, a small Chicago-area think tank which for decades has attacked #mainstream climate #science. A top executive at Seid’s former company, Tripp Lite, served as the chairman of the group. Among the recent claims on the institute’s website: “US #Temperature Readings Are Junk, Negating Climate Science” and “96% of U.S. Climate Data Is Corrupted.”

#BarreSeid #politics #finance #altRight #news #money #propaganda #fake #fail #problem #future #emissions

How a Billionaire’s “Attack Philanthropy” Secretly Funded Climate Denialism and Right-Wing Causes

Emails and interviews reveal privacy-obsessed electronics magnate Barre Seid’s long history of backing efforts to attack climate science, fight Medicaid expansion, and remake the higher education system in a conservative mold.

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