Roe created the State Policy Network in 1992. to influence policy at the state level, allegedly after being urged to do so by Ronald Reagan. SPN currently has a network of think tanks in all 50 states.
Roe created the State Policy Network in 1992. to influence policy at the state level, allegedly after being urged to do so by Ronald Reagan. SPN currently has a network of think tanks in all 50 states.
This is decades in the making. It is a
sort of“civil war” but the thing is, it’s a small group of wealthy people who are hoping to manipulate enough Americans into believing they have some kind of common in-group interest that will motivate them to fight against any Americans resistant to their takeover. Which, after actually typing that out, and reading it, I’m realizing that is also exactly what the American civil war was, there was just no way for people to be informed about who was actually pulling the country’s strings at the time.That’s why they exploit political, racial, and religious divisions. They don’t actually care about any ideology. It’s a tool to manipulate and control in order to further exploit groups to do their fighting for them.
The Heritage Foundation first infiltrated the government by providing Reagan with a copy of their Mandate for leadership, and getting him on board back in the early 80s.
Over 40 years later, they are back in the White House ready to implement Project 2025.
Since Reagan opened the door for them, America has gradually accepted that social benefits are handouts, but corporate welfare actually benefits all of America, because somehow corporations ARE people.
Citizens United was a huge victory for this wealthy group of individuals, because they now have to jump through fewer hoops/hide the source of money used to buy elections.
The Heritage Foundation has also created a network of nonprofit think tanks in all 50 states that pays to promote state level policy benefitting wealthy individuals and corporate donors while disguising it as “small government” representative of state residents.
The creator of this network was Thomas Roe, an early member of the Heritage Foundation. As Roe himself explained to another Heritage Foundation trustee, Robert Krieble, “You capture the Soviet Union – I’m going to capture the states.”
With the able and eager assistance of their dearest allies, the Dixiecrats desperate to restore Jim Crow.
My ADHD brain makes it difficult for me to focus on a full length book, and I’m not one of those people that can scan and retain information, so I have to confess I’ve never read her book, but I very much want to read Heather Cox Richardson’s How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America
By the 20th century, Franklin Roosevelt called the South the nation’s No. 1 economic problem, resistant to unionization and social policies. Even today it leads indices for poverty and weak educational systems. The Jim Crow South was upended by the civil rights revolution. Yet even in defeat, its language of oligarchy and its opposition to progressive political and economic policies through an appeal to racism has been adopted by the modern Republican Party.
Sometimes people tell me I need to chill tf out and stop getting so worked up over this stuff, but I grew up in this world. I escaped and saw that it wasn’t like that in other parts of the country, or even all of the south.
Now I see this shit happening in 2025, and so much has been destroyed in 3 months (just realized today actually marks 3 very long months). It feels like they’re trying to make an entire country like the world I grew up in. I know there is no escape if they succeed, and I know it doesn’t stop with the United States. I just can’t accept that, and go on with life knowing that it doesn’t have to be this way.
I am not white. I moved there from the Midwest. I assumed it was basically the same.
It is INFINITELY WORSE than you can imagine.
They are monsters, it begins with economic problems, but the core of absolute and unreasoning hate is impossible to comprehend, reinforced by the most prideful arrogance beyond that which one could think possible.
I desperately managed to escape to the coasts, but they followed me, so I escaped to Europe.
They inspired the nazis (Hitler cited them in Mein Kampf as the model Germany must follow, the Nuremberg laws are copied almost verbatim) and black GIs came back from liberating Europe to be lynched for being “uppity”.
The BEST case scenario is a civil war, because we are being destroyed in the uncivil peace.
I feel like the Heritage Foundation has already declared a civil war, but like most wars, the rich and powerful people that instigate it will not be the ones doing the actually fighting.
That’s why they exploit in-group behavior to exert mass psychological control while keeping a broken system broken. It benefits them to keep people angry, divided, and distracted.
If/when we actually begin physically fighting a civil war on their behalf (which they are desperately trying to instigate), we are achieving their goals for them. It also benefits them financially given their ownership in weapon manufacturing and defense companies.
It’s no surprise that despite all the cuts we hear about in just about every government department, somehow spending for defense has remained fairly stable and actually increased slightly since 2024.
I agree we should be vigilant and angry, but instead of fighting the people they are exploiting, a better strategy is to steal from their playbook mid game, take advantage of a situation where everyone is already angry, and keep people informed rather than distracted. It is actually still a matter of relying on in-group vs out-group, but by drawing attention to the things they are trying to keep hidden, it actually turns the people that created the war into the out-group.
Trump’s GOP approval ratings are already tanking,, which is a good start, but I think most people are aware Trump is just a pawn in the bigger scheme. To actually end this shit once and for all, we have to make people understand this was in the making for decades, and really going off of Heather Cox Richardson’s point, nearly two centuries.
I would agree with this completely.
Except, for 200 years, the south has only ever focused on racism, cruelty and evil, they have never cared about anything else and have been perfect single-issue voters in that regard.
I suggest we deal with them first, as with them in play democracy is effectively impossible.
That is their great fear, the loss of their most critical pawn, which is why after the Civil War the country suddenly sprung forward to become the greatest on the planet, and the progressive movement surged to improve the welfare of everyone.
The mistake was helping the south with the TVA, giving them the political power to hijack the rest of the country and drive us down their dark, destructive nightmare path.
Idk I have to disagree with that. Aside from bigger cities that always vote blue like New Orleans, Atlanta, Asheville, Memphis, and several others there are still states that definitely lean conservative, and vote red but have actually swung blue at least for governor. That doesn’t mean that it doesn’t exist even in those cities, but it also exists to lesser extents (more confined to neighborhoods) in cities like Boston and Philly.
Louisiana is actually a perfect example of this, when corruption is so blatant it can’t be ignored and things like Medicaid expansion actually benefit people, they will vote Democrat.
Looking at Clinton’s first run, you would be surprised at how many states went blue when they thought it might benefit them. It kind of falls back to in-grouping I guess, but looking at the election map from the 2024 election it would seem it’s definitely not confined to the south. That’s kind of how the heritage foundation has been as successful as it has been. They actually began the official U.S. movement against multiculturalism, which then shifted to “political correctness” in the 90s, and then “wokeness,” and now “DEI.”
A national political focus on welfare as a handout, push towards Christian nationalism disguised as Christian values, and racial division to distract and divide can be traced back to one group
If you remember Jerry Fawell and fairly blatant attempts to use Christianity to somehow advertise segregation, you can thank the Heritage Foundation for that.