[AlexanderHowl]

Completely unrealistic timeline which ignores the actions of the Democratic and Republican Parties as well as the federal bureaucracy, intelligence community, and military. In the real world, the Democratic and Republican Parties would work together to exclude the new party on the local and state level, denying them access to local, state, and federal ballots, and would start investigating the suspicious funding of the new party from day one. In addition, the federal bureaucracy would start legal actions against the people involved for banking, election, and securities fraud (you are talkiny about the Obama Justice Department) and the intelligence community would start killing and imprisoning anyone involved in the memetics campaign (they have procedures for dealing with enemy psyops). If nothing else works, everyone calls on the military to bomb their enemies into smithereens.

A more realistic scenario would see the corporations suborn one of the two existing parties over the course of a decade or two and taking over a major media empire to be its mouthpiece. With indoctrinated candidates coming up through the two party system, it could change policy slowly from inside, and the other groups would be slow to act to suppress an existing major party. Of course, it could also just do a Manchurian Candidate on the Presidential nominee of a major party, but they would still run into issues with the Constitution.