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Has the 1 Percent Committed Treason?
A small group of extremely wealthy people are systematically destroying the US government.
July 15, 2013 |



Permit me an impertinent question (or three).

Suppose a small group of extremely wealthy people sought to systematically destroy the U.S. government by (1) finding and bankrolling new candidates pledged to shrinking and dismembering it; (2) intimidating or bribing many current senators and representatives to block all proposed legislation, prevent the appointment of presidential nominees, eliminate funds to implement and enforce laws, and threaten to default on the nation’s debt; (3) taking over state governments in order to redistrict, gerrymander, require voter IDs, purge voter rolls, and otherwise suppress the votes of the majority in federal elections; (4) running a vast PR campaign designed to convince the American public of certain big lies, such as climate change is a hoax, and (5) buying up the media so the public cannot know the truth.

Would you call this treason?

If not, what would you call it?

And what would you do about it?
Robert Reich is the nation's 22nd Secretary of Labor and a professor at the University of California at Berkeley.

Sounds like you are describing the current administration...it all depends on who and what you believe...

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> Has the 1 Percent Committed Treason?
> A small group of extremely wealthy people are
> systematically destroying the US government.
> July 15, 2013 |
>
>
>
> Permit me an impertinent question (or three).
>
> Suppose a small group of extremely wealthy people
> sought to systematically destroy the U.S.
> government by (1) finding and bankrolling new
> candidates pledged to shrinking and dismembering
> it; (2) intimidating or bribing many current
> senators and representatives to block all proposed
> legislation, prevent the appointment of
> presidential nominees, eliminate funds to
> implement and enforce laws, and threaten to
> default on the nation’s debt; (3) taking over
> state governments in order to redistrict,
> gerrymander, require voter IDs, purge voter rolls,
> and otherwise suppress the votes of the majority
> in federal elections; (4) running a vast PR
> campaign designed to convince the American public
> of certain big lies, such as climate change is a
> hoax, and (5) buying up the media so the public
> cannot know the truth.
>
> Would you call this treason?
>
> If not, what would you call it?
>
> And what would you do about it?
> Robert Reich is the nation's 22nd Secretary of
> Labor and a professor at the University of
> California at Berkeley.

I'm off to go farm on land owned by a 1 percenter who lets me use the land for free so that I can provide people who hate the 1 percent with local organic produce that helps them to be healthy enough to complain about the 1 percent.