Found! The Secret 12-Point Plan To Sell Pro-Wealth Policies To The Middle Class

[Donnachaidh]

http://www.ourfuture.org/blog-entry/2011041620/found-secret-12-point-plan-plan-sell-pro-wealth-policies-middle-class

It's almost like they had a plan. The right-wing has been trying to dismantle the New Deal since its inception, but after decades of failure it's found a new path to success. They're already persuaded quite a few Democrats to support the first steps toward dismantling Medicare and Social Security. They've also convinced a lot of journalists to ignore detailed economic analyses, and accept the ideological platforms of the far right as "moderate" and "reasonable."

How do you do it? How do you sell a nation on dismantling its most popular programs at a time when they're more needed than ever? How do you convince an entire class of people - the middle class - to voluntarily surrender their health and financial security to benefit those who are far wealthier than they are?

Well, we found it! We found the twenty-year-old PowerPoint presentation that outlines the whole thing - the radical agenda, and the 12-point marketing plan that made it possible. Here it is, available to the public for the first time anywhere:

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Well, okay, maybe we didn't find it. Maybe we sat down and wrote it ourselves. But so far things have played out exactly according to this (presumably) fictional plan. The political process is really unfolding as if they'd first laid out a radical seven-step agenda for remaking (or unmaking) the American social compact, and then developed a twelve-point marketing plan for selling it.

More at the link --

[FiveGoodMen]

1. And it's been effective!