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Looked at this again and went, "all this looks familiar"
Little blast from the past
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Tunnelcat
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Re: Little blast from the past
History repeats itself, usually.
I just watched the last segment of The Men Who Built America. Apparently, Rockefeller, Carnegie and Morgan decided that they didn't like William Jennings Bryan, who was out campaigning against the power of those three Plutocrats and was quite successfully courting the vote of the working man. Working conditions were horrible at that time, so he had a willing audience. His huge, vociferous rallies (kind of like what Obama was doing) caught the attention and consternation of the 3 barons. Seeing their empires threatened, they decided to work together, pool their resources and get a "friendly" guy elected to in the White House, in other words, buy the White House. They spent record amounts of money to get elected their champion, William McKinley, who promptly rolled back all those troublesome anti-business regulations as a return favor. Kinda sounds just like the 2012 election, except the Republican won back then instead of the Democrat.
4 years later, McKinley is up for reelection. An upstart Republican challenges McKinley. The trio of millionaires knew that Teddy Roosevelt's message of going after the Monopolies was getting traction with the common man. They needed a strategy to squelch Roosevelt. What did they come up with? Why, put Roosevelt in as VP, where he'd be safely tucked away in a plebeian job. So guess how well that little scheme worked out? Into his second term, McKinley is assassinated, putting Teddy Roosevelt into the Presidency. What did he champion after he got into office? Why, the breakup of the Monopolies of Morgan, Carnegie and Rockefeller. The best laid plans of mice and men, in the past as well as the present.
I just watched the last segment of The Men Who Built America. Apparently, Rockefeller, Carnegie and Morgan decided that they didn't like William Jennings Bryan, who was out campaigning against the power of those three Plutocrats and was quite successfully courting the vote of the working man. Working conditions were horrible at that time, so he had a willing audience. His huge, vociferous rallies (kind of like what Obama was doing) caught the attention and consternation of the 3 barons. Seeing their empires threatened, they decided to work together, pool their resources and get a "friendly" guy elected to in the White House, in other words, buy the White House. They spent record amounts of money to get elected their champion, William McKinley, who promptly rolled back all those troublesome anti-business regulations as a return favor. Kinda sounds just like the 2012 election, except the Republican won back then instead of the Democrat.
4 years later, McKinley is up for reelection. An upstart Republican challenges McKinley. The trio of millionaires knew that Teddy Roosevelt's message of going after the Monopolies was getting traction with the common man. They needed a strategy to squelch Roosevelt. What did they come up with? Why, put Roosevelt in as VP, where he'd be safely tucked away in a plebeian job. So guess how well that little scheme worked out? Into his second term, McKinley is assassinated, putting Teddy Roosevelt into the Presidency. What did he champion after he got into office? Why, the breakup of the Monopolies of Morgan, Carnegie and Rockefeller. The best laid plans of mice and men, in the past as well as the present.
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Re: Little blast from the past
Yeah, the only difference between now and then is that those monopolists figured out how to label the decriers as 'conspiracy theorists' for so long they went unchallenged until it was too late 
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Re: Little blast from the past
by the way, that was a great little series on History channel. Sucked me in and then I went back and found the first couple episodes I missed On Demand.
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Re: Little blast from the past
I really enjoyed jumping around hollering "I told you so! I told you so!" LOL