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198984 author: Alexandrad1@mas.to 11 Mar 2025 17:11
tags: #Trump #fascism #freedomcities #oligarchy
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Yes, indeed, it is in an article by Thom Hartmann, dated dec. 03 2024.

https://hartmannreport.com/p/what-does-agenda-47-spell-for-americas-e01

Screenshot of the chapter about "Freedom Cities" of Agenda 47, from an article by Thom Hartmann

While it’s being portrayed as a goofy stunt designed to make him [Trump] seem like an imaginative idealist, in fact there has been a movement among rightwing billionaires for some time to create cities that they basically run as little feudal fiefdoms, the same way the morbidly rich run their companies and their football teams.
Some libertarian billionaires assert that the only reason there’s never been a successful libertarian nation in the history of the world is because true libertarianism — government doing nothing but running the police, army, and courts with everything else left to private charity and business owners — “has never been tried.”
The ”freedom cities” could be a new libertarian experiment, or they may be the 21st century version of the old “company town,” where nobody has rights or protection of the law but is subject to the whims of the local billionaire owner.
A group backed by Silicon Valley billionaires has already put forward what appears to be a plan to build a new city in California that they may or may not envision running along these lines. The group has so far purchased more than 53,000 acres of land, an area larger than the entire city of Beaumont, Texas, or Sioux Falls, South Dakota.