Since that time, trillions of dollars have been spent by the wealthiest interests - what FDR called “economic royalists” - to convince people that wanting the government to help them better their lives is asking for socialist tyranny. In many ways the propaganda worked. 2/4

But there are signs that things are changing. People are seeing what’s been done to them. But corporatist forces are doing everything possible to defeat progressive candidates, bust unions, squash environmental activism and suppress civil liberties. 3/4