It's pretty hard to argue against brilliance.
I'm on the side of egalitarianism from the workers' perspective. Not on the side of those who inherit their wealth. Such is my lot in life. This is just paraphrasing the documentary.
Principle #1: Reduce Democracy
"Protect the minority of the opulent against the majority."
James Madison, secret Constitutional Convention
Principle #2: Shape Ideology
The Powel memorandum stated business is losing control of the society. Carry out a defensive against Democracy.
The Trilateral Commision stated "institutions reponsible for the indoctrination of the young" failed, and led to an "excess of democracy".
Principle #3: Redesign the Economy
Increase the roll of financial institutions.
Increase the flow of speculative capital.
Pursuant to the Full Employment and Balanced Growth Act of 1978 (Policy report to Congress)
Economic success is based on "greater worker insecurity."
Alan Greenspan, February 26, 1997
Principle #4: Shift the Burden
Plutonomy: small percentage of the world's population that's gathering increasing wealth.
Precariat (Precarious Proletariat): working people who live increasingly precarious lives.
Multibillion dollar corporations make enormous profits and don't pay taxes; hoarding the cash instead of investing in workers or the country.
Principle #5: Attack Solidarity
Your master doesn't care about you.
Free public education, the GI Bill and funding the Special Olympics leads to a higher standard of living.
Principle #6: Run the Regulators
Businesses write the laws.
Bush Sr. bails out Continental Bank of Illinois
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&sour...B2jinpa2p5RdY-
Savings and Loan Bailout cost $126 Billion
Kathleen Day, Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archi...=.67d04b4fe4ef
The next one is coming. When the trade deal is made. They created the laws to keep them from failing in their speculative investments.
Principle #7: Engineer Elections
"No state shall . . . deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law"
Article 14, US Constitution
Protected freed slaves. Except now used almost exclusively for businesses and corporations. Corporations are now seen as people. Including undocumented aliens.
Now money is speech. These "people" are using their massive "vocabulary" to run the federal government.
Principle #8: Keep the Rabble in Line
https://employment.findlaw.com/wages...-overview.html
Has the United States ratified C098 - Right to Organize and Collective Bargaining Convention, 1949 (No. 98)?
https://www.ilo.org/dyn/normlex/en/f...MENT_ID:312243
Principle #9: Manufacturing Consent
"The public must be put in its place, so that it may exercise its own powers, but no less and perhaps even more, so that each of us may live free of the trampling and the roar of a bewildered herd."
Walter Libman
The public being marginalized creates an uninformed electorate to make irrational choices against their own interests.
Principle #10: Marginalize the Public
A corrosive social relationship leads to unfocused anger and self destructive behavior. April 15th is when we should remember how democracies actually function.
