The Same Families Who Tried to Overthrow FDR Are Running The Government Right Now

[LiberalArkie]

In 1933, a circle of Wall Street financiers allegedly hatched a plan to overthrow Franklin Roosevelt. They didn’t want to kill him. They wanted to keep him in his chair, smiling for photographs, while a puppet official — controlled by the men who paid for the operation — ran the country.

This was the during height of the Great Depression. For the average American, life was one in four men out of work, and the other three terrified they were next. Families lived in shacks made of scrap wood and tar paper. Children went to school hungry. Men walked miles every day looking for work that didn’t exist.

And while all of that was happening the richest families in America — the Du Ponts, the Rockefellers, the J.P. Morgan crowd — were losing their minds over FDR. They were used to running everything. And while they sat in their gilded dining rooms arguing over estate taxes, outside people were dying.

Much like today — the wealthiest 1% owned more than the bottom 40% combined — and these men had the nerve to call Roosevelts ideas dangerous.

Americans were suffering, and close to revolting, and FDR knew it. So, he started to put laws into place to help the average American instead of the ultra-wealthy. And the billionaires were pissed. So they started to scheme. The scheme (known as the Business Plot) failed. The scheme collapsed when the general they recruited refused to play along and reported it to Congress. No one was prosecuted. The ambition, however, never died.

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https://dissentinbloom.substack.com/p/the-same-families-who-tried-to-overthrow?fbclid=IwY2xjawQhIEhleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFrV0NYTW9pT1c5elBQUTc4c3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHvzkctj0YpiCy8cyqJgVOgaO2n80r2DjCJqoHa_eIZNJaYEB_EORaDKiE9Qa_aem_HJgZvDgp31LQJ7GmL-2VvQ

[orangecrush]

1. K&R

[Wicked Blue]

2. I wonder whether the families of the heroic General Smedley Butler are still around

I think most of us are hoping for a hero or heroes to save us from the oligarchs.

[Kid Berwyn]

3. Wish I'd written that.

DU 2011 Duty to warn…

The people who tried to overthrow FDR in 1933 had kids.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x1451854

[blue_jay]

17. Wow, I wasn't even alive back then...

just kidding, technically I was more than just alive, just wasn't as politically attuned or awake as I wish I had been. I have to repeat the wow though. So much fascinating info in your OP and that thread. Scary that so much of this was observed and foreseen and yet not stopped (was it even stoppable?) in its tracks. Why isn't info like this in our history books for public school these days (am assuming it's not)? We need a whole separate education on the history of politics here and worldwide. Who is writing (or banning) our modern textbooks for schools? Is there a better way to educate societies? Not expecting answers to my questions, just venting and thinking "aloud".

[wnylib]

20. When you say that you were alive "back then"

but not politically active, which date in the previous post were you referring to,? 1938 or 2011?

[blue_jay]

36. 2011

I would be an amazing person if I was referring to 1938 or 1933 for that matter.

[wnylib]

37. If it was 1938, you would be 88 today.

My mother lived to age 90. One of my uncles lived to 92. He was strongly anti Republican and opposed to MAGA policies. I was glad that he lived to see Biden elected. His sister lived to 93. They were my father,'s siblings. My father lived to 88.

Maybe not likely that you are 88, but not impossible.

Anyway, I was just curious.

[blue_jay]

39. Yes, that would be amazing...

It was a good question, I hadn't considered that possibility of 1938 in my initial reply.

Sounds like your family has good longevity. Glad that your uncle made it to see Biden elected. Happily my mom lived to see Biden elected too, but only made it to almost 85. My dad's dad lived the longest of all of us. Pretty sure he was 93, maybe 94, I was young then. Don't know if I'll make it that long but one never knows.

[Kid Berwyn]

34. BFEE "Just Us"

DUty to warn 2015:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10026954410

Some links have gone bad, but the Way Bac will drag up the info. Pop in the URL…

https://web.archive.org/

[2naSalit]

4. K&R

[Easterncedar]

5. Rachel Maddow told us

See her book "Prologue." "Prequel."

[2naSalit]

6. She did...

I wonder how many actually read it.

[LiberalArkie]

8. I heard of the coup attempt from my grandpappy when I was a preteen. Yea, he was a socialist.

[ShazzieB]

15. Are you talking about Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism?

I need to read that myself.

[Easterncedar]

16. Thanks! I knew I should have checked!

When it came out I bought 2 copies and mailed one, which got lost, so I sent my copy to replace the gift before I got far into it myself. Now I need to hit the library to finish it. I am going to fix my earlier post. Thanks again!

[Glaisne]

25. And her podcast

Ultra.

[KPN]

26. Thanks for the book info. Never heard of the book. Ordered it just now.

[patphil]

7. Sort of like the High Table from the John Wick series.

[dweller]

9. Take a look

https://m.

&pp=0gcJCZoBo7VqN5tD





✌🏻

[ShazamIam]

35. I remember watching this series on youtube several years ago.

Edited to remove an unneeded a.

[LymphocyteLover]

10. Not exactly shocking but still crazy and fucked up

[Jbraybarten]

27. yeah, decades of erosion to norms etc and then a flood of right wing craziness in control.

[c-rational]

11. K&R

[Dave Bowman]

12. Greed is the most destructive addiction there is.

[highplainsdem]

14. Your BuyMeACoffee page says you use AI. Do you use it for your poetry?

[yellow dahlia]

18. Great graphic!

[UTUSN]

19. K&R for, excellent history

[Joinfortmill]

21. FDR, one of the greats.

[LiberalArkie]

23. And no longer on the dime... Only one left is the Kennedy half dollar.

[Niagara]

22. Thanks for this, LiberalArkie

Bookmarked, Rec'd and kicked.

[jfz9580m]

24. And old people were apparently dying

In the streets. As someone who is not from a joint family here in India, but quite happy as a member of a nuclear family, I could never adapt to this large family dynamic.
These guys really see old people as disposable.

I lost 14.5 years from the prime of my life to pointless drivel driven by technodickheads and my field is punishingly hard, niche and jobs are rare to non-existent and I can’t really do a random job. wtf did I sink so much of my resources for then? But well..

I have to pushback and then go back and put my head down and work without thinking about the future. I have seen that work for people.
I want to give it all I have..complete a paper and then see.
Because this was stupid and I don’t buy it that these tech guys are anything but bullshitters.

[LiberalArkie]

29. These guys really see old people as disposable. Nope. Any people not of the noble class and of the serf class

is disposable. Always has been.

[Timewas]

28. A key statement

Main thing I see in there, "No one was prosecuted" seems tobe the main theme in all of this BS then and now, they are above the law, laws are for us peons.

[sop]

30. Albert Einstein wrote an essay titled "Why Socialism?" for the First issue of Monthly Review magazine in 1949.

The following paragraph from his essay touched on the evils of corporate media consolidation, a problem even at that time. Enstein's observations are even more true now than they were during FDR's day.

"Private capital tends to become concentrated in few hands, partly because of competition among the capitalists, and partly because technological development and the increasing division of labor encourage the formation of larger units of production at the expense of smaller ones. The result of these developments is an oligarchy of private capital the enormous power of which cannot be effectively checked even by a democratically organized political society. This is true since the members of legislative bodies are selected by political parties, largely financed or otherwise influenced by private capitalists who, for all practical purposes, separate the electorate from the legislature. The consequence is that the representatives of the people do not in fact sufficiently protect the interests of the underprivileged sections of the population. Moreover, under existing conditions, private capitalists inevitably control, directly or indirectly, the main sources of information (press, radio, education). It is thus extremely difficult, and indeed in most cases quite impossible, for the individual citizen to come to objective conclusions and to make intelligent use of his political rights."

https://monthlyreview.org/articles/why-socialism/

[Kid Berwyn]

38. Make this a separate post, please! It's Einstein's birthday.

Please. Guy was born on Pi day. When AI is gonna send the same "limitless" profits at the expense of an unemployed humanity to the Ellisons and their ilk, its message is something all should read and share.

[The Wielding Truth]

31. So glad to see someone else pointing this out.

These greedy selfish businessmen have been working on this for decades.

[Initech]

32. And they're doing the absolute shittiest job possible. Fuck them all!

[KPN]

33. Kicked! This fact, this history has never gotten enough attention. Instead, we write and consequrently learn a history

that is palatable to the "aristocrats". It works because it's no different really than the tactics used by the illicit drug "industry". Make friends with the young grommets on the street corner, give them some free narcotic, and then some more, wean them from the free stuff once they're addicted to expand their market and maybe even convince some to peddle for them, further and expanding their pyramid scheme. They just do it with nice stuff for cheap, i.e., within the limits of what they are willing to pay us for our labor.

Really -- this does not an iota of the attention it deserves ... in the media, educationally, or from our "leaders".