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In reply to the discussion: I don't think I've heard anyone on the J6 committee ask perhaps the most important question. [View all]slightlv
(6,957 posts)the first one started about 50 years ago with Cheney, Rumsfeld, Douglas Feith, and Heritage Foundation, PNAC, etc. The second one was Trumps. It was louder and more brash and brazen, so of course, it got more attention. It was in your face, while Cheney's was underground, in the background. It worked the system, and so here we are today. It hasn't stopped. All the changes you see today, all the adjudications from SCOTUS are the wishes from PNAC, Cheney, and the Evangelicals with whom they made common cause.
Trump just wanted to be made king-for-life. He was the fool on the hill; the diversion. They thought they could control him. They discovered differently. He got out of hand, as did the base. But that didn't change the original coup's workings. They could still work in the background, as long as they had the SCOTUS.
I don't know how we fight the First Coup. No one is snapping to this. No one is investigating this. And it's this coup that is destroying our democracy. We can put Trump in jail for the rest of his life. We can take out all the militias. We can try to get the Magats to come back to reality. But it still won't change anything. Because that's not where the real danger lays. How do you fight 50 years of planning, small changes made to every department of the U.S. government to lay this foundation? How do you fight 50 years go misinformation and disinformation? Of lies and language misrepresentation? Of brainwashing?