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The headline in this week’s Fortune reads:“Billionaire investor Ray Dalio warns U.S. is ‘on the brink’ and estimates a more than 1 in 3 chance of civil war” Billionaires and civil war? A billionaire-funded Supreme Court Justice flew the American flag upside down outside his house after January 6th in apparent support of Donald Trump‘s attempt to overthrow our government.

READ: How the Big Lie is meant to finish off America Americans for Tax Fairness reports that 50 billionaire families have, at this early stage, already injected almost a billion dollars into our political system — the overwhelming majority of it going to Republicans and in support of Donald Trump — in an effort to maintain enough control of our political system that their taxes won’t go up. And that total is just what’s reported: it doesn’t count the billions in unknowable dark money that’s sloshing around the system thanks to Citizens United. Back in the day, the late Supreme Court Justice Louis D.



Brandeis warned us: “We must make our choice. We may have democracy, or we may have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both.” The number one movie in America last month was Civil War.

Rightwing militias are on the march. More than half of Republicans say they are “expecting” a civil war. How did we get here? And what does oligarchy have to do with civil war? The clear result of five corrupt Republicans on the 1978 and 2010 Supreme Courts legalizing politica.

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