The main battleground is Washington. Shock troops are corporate lobbyists who swarm into Congress, federal departments and the executive branch. Ammunition is the billions of dollars spent each year on federal lobbying (estimated at $3.5 billion in 2020) and campaign contributions (estimated at $14.4 billion in the 2020 federal election). The propagandists supporting the class war are the corporate media, led by rupert Murdoch, the super-rich.