Before Shrub, Bush, and Reagan ... there was Nixon.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jan/10/richard-nixon-100-criminal-traitor

Reminds me a lot of those stories I've read about Reagan/Bush campaign and their alleged involvement with Iranian government to delay release of the hostages till after the 1980 Presidential Election.

Reminds me a lot of stories I've read about Scrub campaign (Baker; Bush I's Secretary of State) working behind the scenes to fix the results in FL and the campaign's efforts working to fix the Supreme Court ruling to stop the recount.

Sense a trend?

In all cases the Right-Wing has managed to obtain power in a country with the largest military and corporate establishment and the result was a lot of profit for them, and the destruction of many lives.

Sense another trend?

In all cases, none of the people who perpetrated these actions were ever held accountable in a court of law.

Here's another one for you?

American society never largely saw this exposed in real-time. We only learned of it much later; after the tremendous damage has been done. Indeed American society is conditioned to repeating the same mistakes over and over.

P.S. - hat tip to Mound of Sound.