Thom Hartmann - Donald Trump's corruption is all Ronald Reagan's fault
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Raw Story
June 2, 2025
Thom Hartmann
Recently, I wrote about how the mental illness of hoarding syndrome afflicting a few hundred of our nation's right-wing billionaires has destroyed a large chunk of the American middle class and is threatening the health of our biosphere
But the overall story is larger than just that.
Vladimir Putin and his state-owned media ridicules Trump daily, pushing his attacks on Ukraine in Trump's face.
Federal workers and our military are aghast at the incompetence, corruption, and even the alleged alcoholism of the people Trump has scraped off the floor of Fox "News" to run their agencies and make federal prosecutors.
All of this corruption and incompetence has one major goal: the enrichment of the Trump family and the people close to them.
It's an old, old story, that dates back to the earliest days of human prehistory.
There are basically two models for societal organization, regardless of all the names.
They are "me societies" and "we societies."
Russia, for example, is today a classic example of a "me society."
The nation is run by a small cabal of "me-me-me" oligarchs, who own or control basically every major company and, in most cases, entire industrial, commercial, media, and retail sectors.
Each is owned by one or more morbidly rich individuals and their families, who are looking out for their own "me" interests (profits) with little regard for the public good.
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America was not only on the path to becoming a "we society": we were halfway there.
By 1980 two-thirds of Americans were solidly in the middle class with a single income, healthcare was affordable, union membership was widespread, college was free or very inexpensive in most of the country, and the morbidly rich hoarders were kept under control with a top 74 percent income tax bracket.
More:
https://rawstory.com/raw-investigates/trump-corruption/
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