In 1933, a coalition of businessmen dissatisfied with FDR’s economic policies surreptitiously planned a coup. The failed Business Plot aimed to depose FDR and install a dictator.
If anyone’s got the time to listen to a podcast about it, there’s one that came out recently called ‘Let’s Start a Coup.’
Admittedly I haven’t heard it myself, but one of the hosts is Justin Boland(?) who also hosts Stuff They Don’t Want You to Know, and been a guest on Behind the Bastards, so I imagine it’ll be quite good, and I’ll be listening to it soon.
Edit: I’ve finished listening to it, and it is indeed very good. Really funny and informative.
This one needs to be taught in high school history classes
A lot of things aren’t taught that should be.
- Tulsa Massacre
- Pinkerton Massacre
- Shirt waist fire
- Redlining and other forms of discrimination against non whites
- Henry Kissingers Vietnam plot
- Battle of Blaire Mountain
- The history of US drug laws
- Early Squabbles between Christian sects
- Of course the business plot
- How corporate lobbying has affected how we run critical things like transportation and medicine
- How early gun control laws were specifically targeting the Black Panthers
Shit, if we’re opening the door on Kissinger, we might as well talk about his role in the Chilean coup, Argentina Junta, the bombings of Cambodia and Laos, Bangladesh independence, and more. You know the saying “only the good die young”? There’s a reason he’s 100 years old.
Then they realized they could just buy the political parties instead.
