I suspect unfettered capitalism is the culprit.

I've been called an anti-capitalist because I believe in a well-regulated capitalist economic model. I call the other form "Laissez Faire" capitalism. But I think I like your definition better, and more readily understandable.

He is a Reverand for the poor. He wrote a book recently.

NPR's Michel Martin talks to Rev. William Barber II ahead of the Poor People's Campaign march. His book is White Poverty: How Exposing Myths About Race and Class Can Reconstruct American Democracy.

A prominent Black pastor says white poverty doesn’t get enough attention
JUNE 27, 2024
https://www.npr.org/2024/06/27/nx-s1-5003737/a-prominent-black-pastor-says-white-poverty-doesnt-get-enough-attention

But the reality is that a lot of RWNJs who want to kill the American Dream are hiding behind Chumpism and using it to accomplish their awful goals. We're fighting this war on so many different fronts now.

I asked if anyone knew the difference between P2025 and the PNAC mission statement. I think they are related, if not essentially the same thing, just rebranded for modern times. And, if enough research is done, we could probably find an earlier document from which the PNAC statement is based. This has been the R's mission since long before many of us were alive... or at least, aware from an adult cognitive viewpoint.

For all we know, some of those people running The Heritage Foundation might have gotten their start at PNAC.

Feith, Cheney, etc. Of course, Rumsfeld's last door opened onto death. Oh, that more of these conspiracy addled cons would have the same. I don't think Cheney ever will die. He just keeps getting failing parts replaced!

it's been out there, that's why one of my assumptions that P2025 is based on it. You're right, in that it fizzled in Iraq and Afghanistan, regardless of how many pallets of money they shipped over there. But remember a Con's belief: Conservatism can't fail; we can only fail Conservatism. Therefore, they never give up; they only morph.

in 1980. They knew if people were aggrieved and financially anxious they vote with feeling instead of logic. They want to be part of a strong man when people feel very weak. So the GOP squeezed the middle class in whatever way they could over 40 years. They were remaking pre-nazi Germany. Then Trump came along.