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MineralMan
(146,364 posts)balancing act? I keep thinking, "Well, this should do it," but then it doesn't.
Gabi Hayes
(28,795 posts)Mind boggles.......
MineralMan
(146,364 posts)Nothing shocks us anymore about the Trump administration.
Gabi Hayes
(28,795 posts)The vote, yes?
How can the rest of this boggle factory not
Result in the hamstringing of the neolibfascist agenda?
Everybody should read the following
You should start a thread:
https://www.kirkusreviews.com/features/nancy-maclean/
Saw her with Amy goodman
Democracy in Chains
It seems inevitable the phrase vast right-wing conspiracy will pop into your head while reading Duke University historian Nancy MacLeans disquieting Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Rights Stealth Plan for America. After all, the phrase made famous by Hillary Clinton in the 1990s popped into MacLeans head a few times while she researched and wrote her book.
It would seem an apt description, given the covert undermining of American democratic foundations and institutions by the extreme libertarian movement MacLean documents in Democracy in Chains. But as pernicious as the movement is, it is not a conspiracy, she said in an interview. A conspiracy involves illegality, and this movement, while it operates by stealth, is generally careful to stay within the rules that exist.
She uses fifth column assault instead. She acknowledged fifth column also is a phrase with a fraught history. But the academics, operatives, ideologues, and billionaires of the radical right have a fundamental hostility to our form of government as it existed over the 20th century, and seek to vanquish it from within.
Democracy in Chains expands on Jane Mayers reporting in Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right. Where Mayer follows the radical rights money trail, MacLean examines its intellectual originsthe master plan behind it, as she writes in her books introduction. Her findings will leave you deeply concerned for our democracy and civic life.
tanyev
(42,721 posts)Iliyah
(25,111 posts)it's normal for the opposition party to collude with another country against said opposition party, etc.
McTurtle and Lying Ryan also knew. These treasonous acts which includes majority of the GOPs, including Sessions, should and must overturn the latest SC judge and forfeit the 2016 elections across board. I even feel that they also rigged at least the recent GA election.
sailfla
(239 posts)Frustratedlady
(16,254 posts)doc03
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