History under the History

There is a train of thought here that's plausible: The right-wing obsession with taking power from the liberals (i.e., FDR and the "New Dealers") and consolidating it beginning with the post-war period (much more can be said about all this, obviously): 1) Murder liberals with power and popularity to intimidate the others (note the slave-owner methodology here); 2) Murder civil rights reformers with power and popularity (even more apt analogy with slavery enforcement); 3) Escalate the "war" on left-leaning governments globally (beginning especially with the Dulles-led CIA in the early 1950s) ; 4) Escalating the war in Vietnam (bad move -- a set back with the public, although good for war profiteers); 4) Overcoming the "Vietnam Syndrome" (i.e., the anti-war movement), beginning with the invasion of Granada by Cowboy Raygun -- a fictional character cynically designed to pacify the American public); 5) Criminalization / financialization of the economy (didn't have far to go on that one); 6) Deploy a "new Pearl Harbor" to institute draconian responses and raise national fear levels ("we'll protect you"); 5) A global pandemic to further muddy the waters, consolidate wealth, property, and power, which plays into #3 where right-wing governments have been installed and supported militarily through the "power of the purse" of the US population and in the EU.

Just a very rough sketch -- and can actually be traced back much further -- A HuffPo piece on Fauci predicting the pandemic in 2017 inspired this (all-too-brief) commentary --

In researching my biography of Herman Husband, an 18th-century agrarian "liberation theology" kind of radical -- I've found that he would not be surprised by this kind of chain of events coming out of the consolidation of power represented by the merchant-banker coup of 1787 (we've been trained to call it the "Constitutional Convention") -- indeed, he predicted it.