Golden Anniversaries Abound: The [Lewis] Powell Memorandum And Attack On America (August 30, 2021)
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K “Okay, so it was fifty years and a week ago. A lot of stuff happened in 1971.”
J “Do even nine folks remember his screed and frontal assault on democracy?”
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K “Appointments to the Supreme Court have always had an element of partisan politics. Lewis Powell was a lobbyist for corporatist interests who became one of the first appointments who then served as a lobbyist for corporatist interests while on the bench.”
J “The courts from the Supremes on down are falling down and failing we the people.”
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[See “50th Anniversary of Powell Memorandum: Neoliberalism Has Wrecked Its Hosts” in “Naked Capitalism” dated August 23, 2021 and “Greenpeace Analyzes the Lewis Powell Memo: Corporate Blueprint to Dominate Democracy” in “Greenpeace.org” dated September 21, 2011 by Charlie Cray.]
[See the e-commentary under the category “Immanentizing The Eschaton” and “The “I” Gene; The “We” Gene: Searching For The Genie In All Of Us (April 3, 2017)”.]
Bumper stickers of the week:
Don’t let them immanentize the eschaton.
Let them immanentize the eschaton.
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