HEIST: Who Stole the American Dream? is a wonderful movie that is stunning audiences across the globe, as it exposes the real truth behind the worldwide economic collapse, tracing its origins to a 1971 secret memo entitled Attack on American Free Enterprise System. Written over 40 years ago by the future Supreme Court Justice Lewis Powell, at the behest of the US Chamber of Commerce, the 6-page memo, a free-market utopian treatise, called for a money fueled big business makeover of government through corporate control of the media, academia, the pulpit, arts and sciences and destruction of organized labor and consumer protection groups.
Sound familiar? Today’s crisis and heart stopping headlines
can be directly traced to Powell’s real “end game” which was business control
of law and politics. Powell’s fingerprints are all over Citizens United, the
fateful Supreme Court decision which gave corporations and the super rich
unlimited ability to shape our elections with virtually unrestricted donations.
HEIST’s step by step detail exposes the systemic implementation of Powell’s
memo by BOTH U.S. political parties over the last forty years culminating in
the deregulation of industry, outsourcing of jobs and regressive taxation. All
of which led us to the global financial crisis of 2008 and the continued
dismantling of the American middle class.
Today, politics is the playground of the rich and powerful,
with no thought given to the hopes and dreams of ordinary Americans. No other
film goes as deeply as HEIST in explaining the greatest heist of our time.
Moving beyond the white noise of today’s polarizing media, HEIST provides
viewers with a clear, concise and fact-based explanation of how we got into
this mess, and what we need to do to restore our representative democracy.
Watch the movie from HEIST Movie here.
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