Right Takes Over Supreme Court: Democracy in Chains - 28:03
Right Wing Takeover of the Supreme Court: Democracy in Chains: the Deep
History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America
with
Nancy MacLean, Author and Professor, History & Public Policy at Duke
University
The Janus Supreme Court decision in June and our
current struggle over Trump’s pick for the Supreme Court vacancy, are only
the most recent manifestations of the Right’s decades long game plan to not
only unravel the New Deal of the 1930's and the civil rights revolution of
the 1960' but beyond that to establish property rights over democratic
rights as the basis for our government..
Prof. MacLean traces this
counter revolution's 60 year plan to eliminate unions, suppress voting
rights, privatize public education, and stop action on climate change.
Their agenda is not just to alter specific legislation or court decisions or
who gets elected but to fundamentally alter the rules of democratic governance by voter suppression and gerrymandering along with instituting Constitutional and judicial changes.
Behind today’s headlines of
billionaires taking over our government is a secretive political
establishment with long, deep, and troubling roots. Billionaires launched
this movement with the aid of an academic and intellectual elite. And
leading this charge was multi-billionaire Charles Koch and Professor James
McGill Buchanan who forged his ideas about government in a last gasp attempt
to preserve the Southern white elite’s power.
Prof. Buchanan and
Charles Koch developed a diabolical, plan to undermine the ability of the
majority to use its numbers to level the playing field between the rich and
powerful and the rest of us. Now their strategy is bearing a poisonous
fruit. which we must understand to effectively fight back.
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