They are waiting for a fire sale to buy up all assets of the USA for the best price. The more hopelessness, the more prey the people are to demagogues.
Purposeful destabilization leading to chaos leading to dictatorship. Long history of this in the world.
Unhappy events abroad have retaught us two simple truths about the liberty of a democratic people. The first truth is that the liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic State itself.
That, in its essence, is fascism - ownership of government by an individual, by a group or by any other controlling private power.
The second truth is that the liberty of a democracy is not safe if its business system does not provide employment and produce and distribute goods in such a way as to sustain an acceptable standard of living. Both lessons hit home.
Among us today a concentration of private power without equal in history is growing.
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
Simple Truths message to Congress (April 29, 1938).
Roosevelt's VP described the process:
"The really dangerous American fascist... is the man who wants to do in the United States in an American way what Hitler did in Germany in a Prussian way. The American fascist would prefer not to use violence.
His method is to poison the channels of public information. With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power...
They claim to be super-patriots, but they would destroy every liberty guaranteed by the Constitution. They demand free enterprise, but are the spokesmen for monopoly and vested interest.
Their final objective, toward which all their deceit is directed, is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection."
~ U.S. Vice President Henry A. Wallace, quoted in the New York Times, April 9, 1944
More of what we're up against:
Thom Hartmann: Conservative Millennials, Boomers & Libertarians all being Conned
This is worth the read. A video and full transcript are posted here at DU:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/101744227
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