Will enough Americans finally wake up to this 40-year grift to put an end to it and return our country to sanity? After Roe v Wade ended, many were rightly concerned that more reproductive rights would fall, including the right to use contraception, birth control. Conservative SCOTUS Justice Clarence Thomas wrote that Griswold vs Connecticut should be overturned in the future. Now one couple was denied condoms because a Walgreens employee's religious beliefs... where did the religious nuttery come from? The rightwing billionaires and the corporations and foundations aligned with them knew back in 1971 — when Lewis Powell laid out their strategy in his infamous Powell Memo the year before Nixon put him on the Supreme Court — that most Americans wouldn’t happily vote to lower billionaires’ taxes, end unions and regulation of gun manufacturers, or increase the amount of refinery poisons in our air. So the strategy they came up with to capture control of our government was pretty straightforward:

 

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