NEOCONNED!
(How the plutocrats of big industry - mostly oil/gas, steel, munitions, chemicals - subverted the reactionary religious and Libertarian movements of the past century, in a calculated bid for political power)


When you read an editorial explaining why guns are good for society, or why DDT is the most humanitarian gift that can be given to the tropics, or how public education is an Abomination Unto the Lord, or that taxes are against the will of Heaven/the Founding Fathers, or that Womanhood belongs on the pedestal labeled Family & Faith, or that there is no proof that smog and dioxin hurt the biosphere, or us, or that we will all be overwhelmed by the Unassimilated Racial Menace of your choice, or how War is good for the Manly Virtues of a civilization  - check and see if the author isn't getting a paycheck, indirectly, from someone who makes bullets, or chemicals, or who got burnt by labour in the '20s or the '60s and is still sore over having to pay women fair wages/hire blacks/offer benefits, or who is in trouble for releasing toxins in the local water supply, or who associated with Charles Lindbergh in the '30s, or stands to gain significantly in continuing government contracts from A Strong National Defense! or who is selling automobiles and their fuel.

If someone is preaching this, and turns out to be sponsored by outfits with historical ties to repression, profit at all human costs, and an elitist ideology of Exceptionalism and Manifest Destiny - well, if it looks, quacks, and walks like a duck, perhaps it belongs in the Duck Pit, rather than in the lecture hall.

This is meant as a starting point, by no means is it comprhensive.

Good hunting! (—Follow the money)



Foundation & Empire 1
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Foundation & Empire 2
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Foundation & Empire 3
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The Straussian Agenda Unveiled
Dame Agatha solves the mystery in 1951, in They Came To Baghdad (excerpt)

"...the nearer any government approaches to Theocracy, the worse it will be"
C.S. Lewis explains why "I am a democrat," in very similar terms, in 1946.