How YOU Can Stop Fascism When Voting Isn't Enough

Donald Trump and the GOP are days away from unleashing fascism but there is good news. Democracy is self correcting... but "The bad news is the means of self-correction are typically war, famine, or revolution,” Thom MORE FROM THOM 📃 Thom's Hartmann's 'Daily Take' Newsletter: https://HartmannReport.com 🎦 Watch a full program re-run anytime: https://www.patreon.com/thomhartmann 🎧 Audio Podcast: https://thom.tv FOLLOW THOM 📕 AMAZON: https://amzn.to/2hS4UwY 📝 DAILY TAKE: https://hartmannreport.com 👥 FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/ThomHartmannProgram/ 📸 INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/Thom_Hartmann 🎦 PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/thomhartmann 🐦 X: https://www.twitter.com/thom_hartmann Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/hartmannreport.com 🌐 WEBSITE: https://www.thomhartmann.com 📺 YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=thomhartmann 👕 Merchandise: https://teespring.com/stores/thom-hartmann-program-2 🍺 Thom Merchandise: https://teespring.com/thom-hartmann-mug?pid=522&cid=101870 ABOUT THE PROGRAM The Thom Hartmann Program is the leading progressive political talk radio show for political news and comments about Government politics, be it Liberal or Conservative, plus special guests and callers. #MoreFromThom ✔ Amazon links are affiliate links TRANSCRIPT How does the average Joe fight back against inequality? This morning on Morning Joe—I didn’t see it, but I read the article on Mediaite—Scott Galloway, who just sold his company L2 (a business intelligence company) for $160 million, was on TV discussing the issue. He’s also a clinical professor of marketing at New York University’s Stern School of Business. Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough set up the discussion. The topic was the economic windfall for Mark Zuckerberg resulting from Facebook no longer fact-checking, which is expected to reduce costs significantly for the platform. Galloway went on a rant. Joe Scarborough introduced the issue by addressing the tax system, saying, “This is accelerating. As a small-government conservative, this is a threat to American capitalism—the fact that billionaires are getting richer and richer by the second while screaming socialism. What does that say about where American capitalism is going over the next 5–10 years?” Galloway responded: “I think it comes down to the basic question: what is America? An economy in America exists to create a robust middle class. Ascending countries over the last 20 years have been China and India. One basic litmus test: how many people are you bringing into the middle class? The greatest innovation in history is not the iPhone or the semiconductor—it’s the American middle class.” He continued: “The middle class in America is the greatest innovation in history. People like to fall back on this right-wing notion that it’s naturally self-healing—it’s not. Throughout history, you have a small number of people who weaponize government. They’re very talented; they aggregate power and more and more of the spoils. The bad news is that it is self-correcting, but typically through war, famine, or revolution.” He added, “The tax code, quite frankly, screws the middle class and continues to transfer more and more money to the super-wealthy. The fastest-growing demographic group in America—it’s not seniors, it’s not Latinos—it’s billionaires. We had 500 billionaires 10 years ago; now we have 2,500. These individuals have weaponized the government, and we risk revolution. Whether it’s CEOs being murdered in the street, the MeToo movement (which has righteous components), or Black Lives Matter—what are these movements? They’re targeting the wealthy. We’re in the midst of a series of small revolutions to correct income inequality.” Galloway went further, saying, “The reason we put an insurrectionist and a rapist in office is because, for the first time in our nation’s history, a 30-year-old man or woman isn’t doing as well as his or her parents were. Why? Because the majority of households are having the oxygen sucked out of the room, such that a small number of individuals and companies are worth more than nation-states. Income inequality is out of control. Our tax policy has gone full oligarch.” Mika interjected to add, “Everybody’s terrified that Trump is going to sue them or something.” Galloway then commented that CEOs being shot is the first shot in an American revolution. While I don’t quite share that opinion, I think you could build a case for it. Hopefully, it won’t be a violent revolution. The reason Trump became president is that people believed his claims that he would change things and restore the middle class that Ronald Reagan gutted. People don’t understand the system because they don’t get real news anymore.