{"id":45270,"date":"2025-11-23T12:21:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T20:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=45270"},"modified":"2025-11-23T12:21:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T20:21:14","slug":"book-master-plan-the-hidden-plot-to-legalize-corruption-in-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2025\/11\/23\/book-master-plan-the-hidden-plot-to-legalize-corruption-in-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Book:  &#8220;Master Plan: The Hidden Plot To Legalize Corruption In America&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/m.media-amazon.com\/images\/S\/compressed.photo.goodreads.com\/books\/1747436322i\/234291403.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Master Plan: The Hidden Plot To Legalize Corruption In America<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/291435.David_Sirota\">David Sirota<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/31221468.Jared_Jacang_Maher\">Jared Jacang Maher<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>For decades, a shadowy network of corporate elites, political operatives, and Supreme Court justices has worked behind the scenes to dismantle campaign finance laws and rig the system in favor of the ultra-wealthy.\u00a0<em>Master Plan<\/em>\u00a0uncovers the hidden history of how unrestrained money and influence have transformed the United States into a full-fledged kleptocracy \u2014 where policy is bought, elections are manipulated, and corruption operates in plain sight.<br><br><strong>Based on the award-winning investigative podcast<\/strong>\u00a0from\u00a0<em>The Lever<\/em>, journalist David Sirota and producer Jared Jacang Maher trace this blueprint back to a little-known memo written by future Supreme Court Justice Lewis Powell. With newly unearthed documents and gripping storytelling, they reveal how this manifesto became a roadmap for dismantling democracy \u2014 one that corporate leaders implemented at secret meetings in places like Disney World, that inspired wealthy anti-government radicals like Joseph Coors to fund the Heritage Foundation, and that paved the way for operatives like Roger Ailes to build Fox News. From Nixon\u2019s Watergate cover-up to the<em>\u00a0Citizens United<\/em>\u00a0ruling and today\u2019s dark-money super PACs, Master Plan exposes the calculated efforts to use wealth to control political leaders and legalize corruption at every level of government.<br><br>With the 2024 election marking the most expensive in U.S. history, the Supreme Court enabling corruption, and Elon Musk openly seizing government functions, this book arrives at a crucial moment \u2014 just as Project 2025 and a second Trump presidency aim to enact the final phase of this 50-year plan.<br><br>With expanded reporting and exclusive materials not included in the podcast,\u00a0<em>Master Plan<\/em>\u00a0is the definitive history of how America\u2019s democracy was hijacked \u2014 and what can still be done to reclaim it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Goodreads.com)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Master Plan: The Hidden Plot To Legalize Corruption In America David Sirota,\u00a0Jared Jacang Maher For decades, a shadowy network of corporate elites, political operatives, and Supreme Court justices has worked behind the scenes to dismantle campaign finance laws and rig the system in favor of the ultra-wealthy.\u00a0Master Plan\u00a0uncovers the hidden&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2025\/11\/23\/book-master-plan-the-hidden-plot-to-legalize-corruption-in-america\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45270"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45270"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45271,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45270\/revisions\/45271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}