and others, so belatedly awakened, but still. To see decades of subversive preparation breaking out in the open and escalating is amazing.
It was started in the 1970s by domestic enemies planning to turn the nation conservative to repeal the New Deal and better serve the wealthy. The kind of people who came in on that were not of the best character or judgement, to put it mildly. After years of scheming they had the communications revolution to turn into a weapon of national destruction and then the huge victory of unlimited money in politics. They were able to greatly intensify both infiltration of corruption and the turning of the electorate on ourselves (divided we fall).
This has to be a fascinating time for scholars who study corruption. Turns out the corruption we've always feared isn't the relaxing and unraveling of standards here and there that we imagined but long-term systematic efforts to subvert policies, procedures and whole institutions that served the many to serve the subversives. Russia's been exporting corruption as a weapon of war for decades anyway and was in like Flynn for the destruction of the U.S. Most subversives were always paid with money and professional success, but we now know that some are blackmailed.
In any case, the kind of people who were infiltrated everywhere to accomplish that are the kind we're viewing with astonishment today. The Republican Party has been stuffed with venal and amoral crooks, ruthless social and religious conservatives, anti-government and anti-democracy true believers, white supremacists, fervent nationalists, basically everyone who should never be allowed in positions of authority.
Agents of corruption are also in the media, the law, our universities, our information systems, everywhere they're needed.
But there are still plenty of good people everywhere also, and now we finally see what we're up against. They're at the extremely dangerous point for them of no longer operating with most of the nation completely unaware. Really, we should thank Trump for helping us in that at least. A true wild cannon shooting in all directions.
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