Somebody needs to tell the politicians: "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."

On March 13, 1962 President Kennedy said, "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."

Today we have armed militias in our streets; violence in our state capitols, school boards, and on airplanes; and just ten months ago we saw an actual attempt at violent revolution in our US Capitol.

What happened to the "peaceful revolution"? A quick glance at the past 40 years of American history answers the question while giving us a modern insight into Kennedy's prescient warning.

Read more at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom

Wednesday's Daily Stack

Article: "Americans Begged Politicians for Peaceful Progressive Revolution for 40 years: Will It Happen?" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "It's Time to Roll Back Reagan's Middle-Class Tax Increases!" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Time to End the Medicare Advantage Scam" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "40 of Trump's biggest broken promises" by Robert Reich.

Article: "The Broken Promises of George W. Bush" by Center for American Progress Action Fund.

Article: "Fact Check: Are Obamacare's deductibles more than $7,000?" by Tami Luhby.

Quote: "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." - John F. Kennedy.

Article: "Medicare Advantage For All? Not So Fast" by Ken Terry, David Muhlestein.

Article: "Trump: My tax plan is 'going to cost me a fortune'" by Ben Schreckinger, Nick Gass.

Article: "Rick Scott 'oversaw the largest Medicare fraud' in U.S. history, Florida Democratic Party says" by Amy Sherman.

Article: "Promise Broken rulings on Obameter" by Politifact.

Article: "1992 Democratic Party Platform".

Article: "Black flag: Understanding the Trumpists' latest threatening symbol" by Chauncey DeVega.

Article: "Here are 76 of Donald Trump's many campaign promises" by Jenna Johnson.

Article: "Build Back Better" by White House.

Video: 2000 Election Theft in Florida - Part 1 - Greg Palast.

Video: "New Covenant speech", October 23, 1991 by Bill Clinton.

Article: "North American Free Trade Agreement" (NAFTA) by Wikipedia

Quote: "Today, we are ending welfare as we know it" - Bill Clinton.

Article: "Battle of Hastings" by Wikipedia.

Article: "14th Amendment section 3, July 9, 1868 "No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof."

Article: "McAuliffe, Youngkin in dead heat: poll " by Julia Manchester.

Article: "A citizen's guide to Trump's 2024 strategy" by Judd Legum, Tesnim Zekeria and Rebecca Crosby.

Article: "'Frightening' threats show Trump-backed candidates intend to 'lock up' public officials they don't like: Michigan attorney general" by Travis Gettys.

Article: "Beer Hall Putsch" by Encyclopaedia Britannica.

Article: "The Failed Coup That Led To Hitler's 'Mein Kampf'" by WBFO.

Book: "Mein Kampf" by Adolf Hitler.

Photo: "Adolf Hitler speaks to the widow of a Nazi party member who died during the 1923 Beer Hall Putsch".

Article: "How Far Down the Road Towards Fascism Has America Gone?" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Death of Ashley Babbitt" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Reichstag fire", 27 February 1933 by Wikipedia.

Article: "Economy of Nazi Germany" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Why Adolf Hitler Was TIME's Man of the Year for 1938" by Time.

Article: ""Hillarycare" (The proposed Health Security Act of 1993)" by Ballotpedia.

Article: "No Labels and the 'Problem Solvers' are Wolves of Wall Street in Sheep's Clothing" by Porter McConnell, Rion Dennis.

Article: "Blue Dog Coalition" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Presidential election in West Virginia, 2016" by Ballotpedia.

Article: "Adam Schiff: Select Committee to Enforce Subpoenas with 'Criminal Contempt'" by Pam Key.

Article: "Liz Cheney Threatens Criminal Contempt Charges for Those Who Ignore Jan. 6 Subpoena" by TCR.

Article: "Santa Claus Is About To Drop a Bomb On Biden" by Thom Hartmann.

Case: "Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission" (2010)

Site: MoveOn.org

Article: "Democrats Sue Over Montana Voter Suppression Law Targeting Young Voters " by Democracy Docket.

Article: "McConnell: I Pray for Manchin, Sinema 'Every Night,' They Could Kill the $3.5 Trillion Spending Bill" by Bradley Cortright.

Hour Two: Are people rejecting the, "do you want fries with that, minimum wage, economy?"
- Economist Dr. Richard Wolff, Democracy At Work / Author of numerous books - his latest is The Sickness is the System (now also available as an e-book)

Article: "A record 4.3 million workers quit their jobs in August, led by food and retail industries" by Jeff Cox.

Article: "Americans quit their jobs at a record pace in August" by Christopher Rugaber.

Article: "'The great reimagination of work': Why 50% of workers want to make a career change" by Abigail Johnson Hess.

Article: "Consumer prices rise more than expected as energy costs surge" by Jeff Cox.

Article: "Amazon's profit soars 220 percent as pandemic drives shopping online" by Karen Weise.

Article: "Facebook usage has soared during the pandemic, but the company warns of 'significant uncertainty' ahead" by Nick Statt.

Article: "Companies Hit By Worker Strikes in Recent Weeks, John Deere Latest Impacted" by Rebecca Klapper.

Article: "How Many Strikes Are There in the U.S.?" by Johnnie Kallas, Eli Friedman, and Dana Trentalange.

Article: "2021 Nabisco strike" by Wikipedia.

Article: "'Death of 1,000 cuts': Kellogg's workers on why they're striking" by Michael Sainato.

Article: "Deere workers set to go on strike as UAW fails to reach deal" by Reuters.

Article: "School Bus Drivers End Strikes in Maryland's Anne Arundel County" by Merari Acevedo-Vigo.

Article: "Janitors At DIA Vote To Strike Over Wages & Workload" by Jennifer McRae.

Article: "St. Vincent Hospital declares impasse in strike talks with nurses" by Cyrus Moulton.

Article: "San Antonio Symphony Musicians Declare Strike Over Proposed Cuts" by AFM.

Article: "Dot-com bubble" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Financial crisis of 2007-08" by Wikipedia.

Article: "2020 stock market crash" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Congress Plaza Hotel strike" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Middle-Class Decline Mirrors The Fall Of Unions In One Chart" by Caroline Fairchild.

Article: "Union Membership" by BLS.

Article: "Germany: Gas station employee killed over a face mask" by DW.

Why the Work Requirement on the Child Tax Credit is a BAD Idea...
- Rebecca Vallas, Senior Fellow - The Century Foundation (formerly w/CAP where she helped build Poverty to Prosperity Program) & Host - Off-Kilter podcast

Audio: Off-Kilter Podcast: The Racist Roots of Work Requirements.

Article: "President Biden Announces American Rescue Plan" by White House.

Article: "Sen. Joe Manchin suggests requiring people to work so they can get Biden's monthly child tax credit" by Connor Perrett and Joseph Zeballos-Roig.

Article: "Childhood hunger declines as tax credit payments arrive" by Amanda Peacher.

Article: "The Racist Roots of Work Requirements" by Elisa M.

Article: "Thomas Hobbes" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Jean-Jacques Rousseau" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Joe Manchin Thinks Parents Should Have To Work For Child Tax Credit" by Arthur Delaney.

Article: "New study blows a hole in Joe Manchin's argument that the revamped child tax credit discourages people from working" by Ajansev.

Article: "Assassination of John F. Kennedy" by Wikipedia.

Law: "Civil Rights Act of 1964".

Law: "Voting Rights Act of 1965".

Article: "Medicare (United States)" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Satellite Images Show Massive Armada Of Idle Cargo Ships Waiting To Dock In Long Beach" by Tyler Rogoway.

Article: "Elaine Chao" by Wikipedia.

Article: "A 'Bridge' to China, and Her Family's Business, in the Trump Cabinet" (Elaine Chao) by Michael Forsythe, Eric Lipton, Keith Bradsher and Sui-Lee Wee.

Article: "For the Chao Family, Deep Ties to the World's 2 Largest Economies" by Michael Forsythe and Eric Lipton.

Article: "Shortages of supplies and workers will delay Gulf rebuilding" by Paul Wiseman, Alex Veiga.

Article: "Biden talks efforts to relieve supply chain crisis, including '90-day sprint' to clear backlogs" by CNN.

Hour Three: Why We Need to Declare a Climate Emergency & Stop All New Fossil Fuel Projects...
- John Beard, Jr., Founder, Chairman and CEO of the Port Arthur Community Action Network.

Article: "Tuesday: After 135+ Arrests, Climate & Indigenous Activists to Return to the White House for Day 2 of Climate Protests" by Indigenous Environmental Network.

Article: "Thousands of people are descending on the White House for a weeklong climate protest" by AJ Dellinger.

Article: "Thousands of Climate Change Protesters Are Coming to DC on October 11" by Jane Recker.

Article: "Rain fell on Greenland's ice sheet for the first time ever known. Alarms should ring" by Kim Heacox.

Article: "Greenland's ice sheet melting so fast it has caused global sea levels to rise 0.5mm in just a month" by Jon Sharman.

Article: "Lean manufacturing" ( just-in-time) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Émile Durkheim" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Hunter versus farmer hypothesis" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Bill Gates-backed ESS — which makes giant batteries out of iron, salt and water — starts trading" by Catherine Clifford.

Book: "The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight: Revised and Updated: The Fate of the World and What We Can Do Before It's Too Late" by Thom Hartmann

Article: "Church Committee", 1975-6.

Article: "An Explanation: Nixon, I.T.T. and Milk Case" by David E. Rosenbaum.

Article: "Jimmy Carter calls for return to publicly financed elections" by Marilyn W. Thompson.

Case: "Buckley v. Valeo", 1976

Case: "First National Bank Of Boston V. Bellotti", 1978

Article: "China ramps up war drums in chilling threat: 'Taiwan in dangerous situation'" by James Lee.

Article: "The US must avoid war with China over Taiwan at all costs" by Lt Col Daniel L Davis (ret).

Book: The Hidden History of Big Brother in America: How the Death of Privacy and the Rise of Surveillance Threaten Us and Our Democracy by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Inside a future cyberwar: What will cyber warfare really be like?" by Aspen Pflughoeft.

Article: "Next major war will be 'very different,' U.S. defense secretary says" by Reuters.

Article: "How China's cyber command is being built to supersede its U.S. military counterpart" by Chris Bing.

Thursday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 12-3pm ET

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