The Amercan Oligarch Soft Coup That Doubled Their Wealth
When Franklin Delano Roosevelt was elected he instituted the New Deal which included Social Security, and that made American Oligarchs like the Rockefeller, DuPont, and Pew families jealous of their counterparts in Europe that lived in Fascist countries and didn't have to share the wealth with peasants, so they launched what is known as the Business Plot to overthrow Roosevelt and his New Deal. They asked Major General Smedley Butler to lead a coup backed by the Army Reservists at least three times in the first year of FDR's presidency, but he refused and testified about the Business Plot before Congress in 1934. Though they failed to have an official coup, after FDR died in 1945 the American Oligarchs pulled off a soft coup by gaining control over both political parties and all US media. They created term limits, destroyed unions with "right to work" laws, and outsourced American jobs, which doubled the wealth of the top 1% from 10% to 21% of everything in America ov...