THE BUSINESS PLOT TO OVERTHROW ROOSEVELT

This is pretty wild. From The Great Depression courtesy of Crooks and Liars:

In the summer of 1933, shortly after Roosevelt's "First 100 Days," America's richest businessmen were in a panic. It was clear that Roosevelt intended to conduct a massive redistribution of wealth from the rich to the poor. Roosevelt had to be stopped at all costs.

The answer was a military coup. It was to be secretly financed and organized by leading officers of the Morgan and Du Pont empires. This included some of America's richest and most famous names of the time...

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And what type of government would replace Roosevelt's New Deal? MacGuire was perfectly candid to Paul French, a reporter friend of General Butler's:

"We need a fascist government in this country… to save the nation from the communists who want to tear it down and wreck all that we have built in America. The only men who have the patriotism to do it are the soldiers, and Smedley Butler is the ideal leader. He could organize a million men overnight."

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I had not heard of this, but it comes as no surprise. It's no big secret that the wealthy elites who literally own the nation feel that they ought to run it, too, and this attitude goes all the way back to the American Revolution. For the most part, they've gotten their way, and rarely are they really challenged--the New Deal was one of those rare occasions, which is why they plotted this coup.

Of course, this is unthinkable today: the wealthy elites, through a combination of their ownership of media companies, the propagandistic public schools, lobbying, and campaign finance laws that do nothing more than sanction the buying and selling of politicians, have perfected a system of controlling the machinery of "democracy." Any policy program that resembles something like the New Deal is virtually impossible under these circumstances.

If all that were to somehow change, however, I bet my comic book collection that the elites would, once again, seriously consider a military coup. They see controlling this country as their right, and nothing will stand in their way.

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