Robert Reich: Trump isn’t alone — the entire GOP has spent decades trying to destroy trust in the Am

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Robert Reich: Trump isn’t alone — the entire GOP has spent decades trying to destroy trust in the American system

by Robert Reich at Raw Story

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/10/robert-reich-trump-isnt-alone-the-entire-gop-has-spent-decades-trying-to-destroy-trust-in-the-american-system/

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Like Trump, Gingrich did whatever it took to win, regardless of the consequences. In 1996, during the debates over welfare reform, he racially stereotyped African-Americans. In 2010 he fueled the birther movement by saying President Obama exhibited “Kenyan, anticolonial behavior.” Two years later, in his unsuccessful bid for the Republican presidential nomination, he called President Obama the “food stamp president.“

As political observers Norman Ornstein of the American Enterprise Institute and Thomas Mann of Brookings have noted, “the forces Mr. Gingrich unleashed destroyed whatever comity existed across party lines.” Gingrich’s Republican Party became “ideologically extreme; scornful of compromise; unmoved by conventional understanding of facts, evidence and science; and dismissive of the legitimacy of its political opposition.”
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In truth, it’s not just Republicans and not just relationships between the two major parties that have suffered from the prevailing ethos. During this year’s Democratic primaries, former Democratic National Committee chair Debbie Wasserman-Schultz and her staff showed disdain for the integrity of the political process by discussing ways to derail Bernie Sanders’s campaign, according to hacked emails.

The same ethos is taking over the private sector. When they pushed employees to open new accounts, Wells Fargo CEO John Strumpf and his management team chose to win regardless of the long-term consequences of their strategy. The scheme seemed to work, at least in the short term. Strumpf and his colleagues made a bundle.


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1. 'Thanks.'

'The same ethos is taking over the private sector. When they pushed employees to open new accounts, Wells Fargo CEO John Strumpf and his management team chose to win regardless of the long-term consequences of their strategy. The scheme seemed to work, at least in the short term. Strumpf and his colleagues made a bundle.'

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2. Coinciding with formation of anti-american, anti-government news media by a Korean cult leader

in the 80s who was joined in the 90s by his global fascist crony, an Australian extortionist.

Poppy Bush's pals. They succeeded. Till the monster they built with their manipulative rhetoric grew out of control.

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/bad-moon-rising-john-gorenfeld/1102623743

Bad Moon Rising: How Reverend Moon Created the Washington Times, Seduced the Religious Right and Built an American Kingdom

[Coyotl]

3. "The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of publ

John Nichols ‏@NicholsUprising
"The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information."
-- VP Henry Wallace

[colsohlibgal]

4. The Long Con

The right has played a long game based on Lewis Powell's roadmap memo written in the early 70s.

Over the last 35 or so years they have convinced everyday people that the debt is because of runaway spending on social programs, not an obscenely bloated defense budget and a huge drop in revenue because of tax policy favoring wealthy people and corporations. Oh and that the threat from ISIS has nothing to do with Cheney using his hand puppet to launch a first strike war on Iraq, deposing Sadaam, creating the vacuum that led to ISIS.

All this has created millions who consistently vote contrary to their own personal interest.