Meet 3 Master Manipulators of America’s Oligarchy

By Lynn Stuart Parramore

October 24, 2013  |  Ideas are costly, especially bogus ones. And a growing class of billionaires is more than willing to pay.

 

Whether they’re ginning up deficit hysteria to cut Social Security or blaming teachers and firefighters for state budget crises, these 1 percenters pose as defenders of your interests while arranging things so that they can plunder America and leave hard-working people with scraps. They fully understand mechanisms of manipulating public opinion, and they can pay off pundits and politicians to subscribe to whatever ideas best justify their greed and abuse.

It’s not enough that we now have the widest divide between rich and poor in living memory. These men are determined to crack open that gulf even wider.