http://reclaimdemocracy.org/powell_memo_lewis/
This was the blueprint, written back around 1971, commissioned by the US Chamber of Commerce, which was upset with what it had been seeing from the 1960s - the social revolution 1) against the Vietnam war, 2) for greater civil rights, 3) for greater women's rights, 4) for sexual liberation in general, 5) anti-capitalist/corporatist.
Written by Lewis Powell, an attorney who would soon be successfully nominated by Richard Nixon to the Supreme Court.
Establish lots of "think tanks" and "institutes" and "foundations" to develop policy YOUR way, and bring in people who can write position papers and conduct "studies" to provide validation for YOUR policies. High-'n'-mighty titles to those organizations certainly helps enhance their image with a gullible public - that really just starves for validation of the cockamamie regressive 6th-century-BC belief systems they still embrace.
Build your own media that pushes YOUR message and YOUR world view and all that raw material conveniently generated by those "think tanks" and "institutions" and "foundations" (thus, Limbaugh and hate radio, and Pox Noise).
School and groom YOUR talent - people who can press the message to the public, either because they've been trained to do so for on-camera, or you provide them publishing arms under which they can write books, or you take over or establish newspapers where they can be installed as op/ed columnists. Then, with all these new "bona fides" on their "resumes" as published "best-selling" "authors" (because your organization bought up mass quantities of books to up the sales numbers), guess who can get hired for on-camera talking heads and "analysts" and "experts," thus further burnishing their "reputations" for the future.
They've been at this since Nixon's downfall - which was probably red-alert time for them, recognizing how much control that cost them politically. They sure regrouped in a hurry. The Democrats gained ONE foothold, with Jimmy Carter, in 1976. And that was IT. ONE term and then reagan took over in 1980. That was IT, til 1992 when Bill Clinton grabbed the White House away from George "he was entitled to TWO terms!!!" Bush Sr. - in 1992.
Quite frankly, I can't help but suspect that
THIS is the seed of Clinton-hatred. THIS is how all that extreme, ridiculously disproportionate, and totally nonsensical white-hot hatred of Bill and Hillary Clinton began, and how even these many years later, it hasn't subsided. Of course, by now, virtually nobody on that side of The Aisle of Dim-Bulbs thinks back that far, or remembers much of the details that led up to it. And some of 'em are too young to have gone through it. All they know is that "Bill and Hillary BAAAAD!", so that's that. They just know that you hate Bill and Hillary. PERIOD. Because Clinton. Because We Hate All Things Clinton. Because! Just BECAUSE!!! It's knee-jerk time for the jerk contingent. Poor pathetic sops. What will they do when there's no more Bill-and-Hillary some day? Who will they hate that badly? Besides President Obama, that is?
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