Thom Hartmann discusses independent media, America’s dangerous plight, and solutions.

Thom Hartmann visited Politics Done Right on Egberto Off The Record and discussed the dire straits America is in, the mainstream media’s dereliction, and the role of independent media to mitigate it.

Thom Hartmann discusses independent media and more.

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Summary

Thom Hartmann frames the United States as teetering on the edge of oligarchy, indicts corporate-owned mainstream media for normalizing the slide, and argues that only well-organized independent outlets and grassroots activism can pull the country back from the brink.

• Hartmann traces today’s crisis to the Supreme Court’s 2010 Citizens United ruling, which flooded elections with unlimited corporate cash and super-charged a 60-year conservative project to dismantle.
• He warns that economic pain has been masked by cheap credit while real wages for the bottom 90 % stagnate and top-tier incomes soar—data the Economic Policy Institute confirms.
• Six conglomerates now control the lion’s share of U.S. news outlets, allowing billionaire owners to blunt stories that threaten concentrated power.
• Hate-based “replacement” myths, anti-union propaganda, and manufactured culture wars divide working-class voters who would otherwise unite for economic justice.
• Hartmann urges activists to “get inside” the Democratic Party as precinct chairs, utilize truly independent media to educate communities, and pressure lawmakers to implement structural reforms, such as public campaign financing and antitrust enforcement.

The conversation casts independent media not as a luxury but as democracy’s last line of defense against a plutocratic takeover engineered through money, myth, and manufactured division.

The complete article is here on my Substack.

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