When future historians ask what Putin wanted from Trump, the answer may be painfully simple: “Everything America once stood for.”
Thom Hartmann
This isn’t alarmism: it’s the historical pattern, repeated across dozens of countries and thousands of years.
How ICE moved from enforcing immigration law to deciding which people belong in America and which people do not.
Trump and the hard-right billionaires who made him president appear to be betting that things will work out for them as well as it did for Putin.
By declaring that Trump’s Jan 6 mob was innocent and the American criminal justice system is corrupt, it sends a clear message: violence in service of Trump will be forgiven, even celebrated, going forward into the future.
By treating sovereign borders and international law as optional, the Trump regime embraces the worldview that fueled Hitler, fortified oligarchs, and now threatens the American Experiment.
Billionaire cash steers the agenda, military and police power set the boundaries, and religious messaging sells it as virtue, all while taxpayers fund the very system that excludes them.
From 50-year mortgages to paywalled car features, the rental economy is replacing ownership with lifelong monthly bills.
Americans deserve to know how we’ve been manipulated and ripped off—and by whom—for the past 45 years.
The commons, unions, and a livable wage built the first mass middle class. Now younger voters want to reboot that machine at full throttle.
When politicians hand the gun industry a liability shield, they’re not “protecting freedom,” they’re protecting a business model built profits over body counts.
In 11 months, we’ll have an opportunity to retrieve our democracy from the clutches of the morbidly rich, the ideologues who deify them (and have for millennia), & their bought-&-paid-for politicians.
If we allow a network of secretive, cruel, detention facilities for one set of powerless people today, tomorrow it will inevitably turn those same systems against anyone who challenges their power.
Our elections, our media, even our justice system, are all owned by the few. The Powell Memo lit the match; Citizens United poured on the gasoline. The fire of corruption is now a national inferno.
A government that celebrates cruelty, weaponizes culture and mocks due process is telling you exactly what it plans to become.
What elite isolation reveals about the fragility of modern democracy and the cost of unchecked billionaire power.
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