The most recent short film from Brave New Films/Robert Greenwald, a primer on the right wing propaganda machine, and in particular, Charles and David Koch’s very successful efforts to undermine support for social security via dissemination of lies/propaganda.
Watch (Sen. Bernie Sanders (D)narrates):
Digby:
BNF is taking on the Kochs specifically and they are major kingpins in this operation. But the conservative infrastructure project has been underwritten for years by a variety of wealthy benefactors. This goes all the way back to the Powell Memo, but their infrastructure is so well entrenched decades later that it has an organic quality that's taken for granted in the political bloodstream. It's important to take it apart and explain it so that people can see this.
You can read the Powell Memo in its entirety here.
Adding….I can’t stress enough how important it is to share this video, and others like it, with your family, friends, and so forth. If we are to be successful in ending such corporate influence in our politics, people must first become aware of how it affects them.
