It started when Ronald Reagan said: "The government is not the solution; the government is the problem." This was the beginning of  a spiraling delusion that grew into an attack on a diversity of opinions, civil society, education, and civilization itself. The chief beneficiaries in the antigovernment movement were the wealthy who received forty years of tax cuts that defunded the Internal Revenue Service, public TV and radio, affordable education, and programs to help the poor. Prisons for the poor who could not afford the cost of higher education or the legal system were expanded as training centers for criminals.  Segregation by race was repackaged as segregation based upon income.  An unregulated real estate market bid up the cost of housing beyond affordability.  A tsunami of privatization transformed entire segments of our economy like health care into neo-feudalistic structures  in which corporations siphoned profits from Medicare and Medicaid transferring even wealth to the investor class. The Supreme Court defined organized political bribery  laundered though campaign contributions as free speech. New technology sold as the Information Age was placed under private control and driven by segregated advertising models which became highly divisive weapons for the mass indoctrination of disinformation and divisiveness.

It started when Ronald Reagan said: "The government is not the solution; the government is the problem." This was the beginning of  a spiraling delusion that grew into an attack on a diversity of opinions, civil society, education, and civilization itself. The chief beneficiaries in the antigovernment movement were the wealthy who received forty years of tax cuts that defunded the Internal Revenue Service, public TV and radio, affordable education, and programs to help the poor. Prisons for the poor who could not afford the cost of higher education or the legal system were expanded as training centers for criminals.  Segregation by race was repackaged as segregation based upon income.  An unregulated real estate market bid up the cost of housing beyond affordability.  A tsunami of privatization transformed entire segments of our economy like health care into neo-feudalistic structures  in which corporations siphoned profits from Medicare and Medicaid transferring even wealth to the investor class. The Supreme Court defined organized political bribery  laundered though campaign contributions as free speech. New technology sold as the Information Age was placed under private control and driven by segregated advertising models which became highly divisive weapons for the mass indoctrination of disinformation and divisiveness.

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