originally instead of the trailer above i had posted the full version of that documentary. due to a copyright claim it is no longer available. it discussed the Powell memo in detail and that's why this link is here.
and now of course the depression-era children of those men (see the Koch brothers) and the corporate trash of our generations are following this same exact doctrine while pumping it full of steroids.
(interesting note) within this memo we also see the birth of the 401K which was deliberately established to favor corporate $$ interests while systematically cutting the average worker's retirement benefits in half with ease. and here's the true trump my friends: the ones setting up those accounts actually think they're "responsible intelligent citizens" for playing ball.
train them to regurgitate that old "look on the bright side" cliche something is better than nothing and the rest is child's play.
meet/smell the new face/stink of POSITIVE THINKING.
we swim in the irony that the ONLY real consistent & predictable bipartisanship (through every single President of the last 34 years = from Reagan to Daddy Bush to Clinton to Georgie Boy and of course Mr. Barack Obama) we can find time & time again in Washington is the step-by-step deliberate deregulation-based theft of the American public.
and we do not even have to wait for 2016 to know or perhaps truly understand that regardless of age, gender, race, background, party affiliation, or campaign promises the next President will continue that business as usual while those Ameri-con morons we call neighbors debate who is going to "fix" this mess.
this shit is evil GENIUS.
it's been almost 43 years since the Powell memo was 1st published in 1971.
that's a lot of time.
that's a lot of damage.
