Perhaps 40 years ago I decided that nation states were no longer the seat of power in the world; international corporations had taken their place. And the corporations used the nation states to take care that the corporations could keep getting as rich as possible. Corporations had taken over colonial exploitation of weaker nations’ resources entirely. Wars and nationalism were necessary to this scheme.
Around the same time, the billionnaires (like the Koch brothers) who ran the corporations also planned to take over the US courts to amplify their power and wealth. We think of the Heritage Foundation and Federalist Society when we think of what has happened to the courts, but who financed these groups?
Sheldon Whitehouse has presented a series of six speeches in the Senate describing the takeover of the federal courts in this country. I post all of them below. They are well worth the time. Unfortunately, it doesn’t look like most senators agreed.
My title is the title of a novel by Philip Roth in which he imagines Charles Lindbergh winning the presidency in 1940, and joining Nazi Germany. I chose it because this plot (or scheme, as Whitehouse puts it) has laid the groundwork for the fascist takeover we are so close to. All we need is for the Senate to continue its refusal to end the filibuster and pass voting rights laws.