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In reply to the discussion: C. Wright Mills: Sociological Imagination and the Power Elite [View all]librechik
(30,678 posts)33. I've been wondering about Poppy Bush. By many accounts his IQ is/was
under 100. Bush Sr seems a simple, amiable, and blank-page kinda guy, IMO. Maybe even moronic.
Who was running him? He must have had a CIA/FBI handler or handlers. Who was directing this agent of chaos?
Almost finished reading The Devil's Chessboard. The end is the most shocking of all the vile, unbelievable previous tales. Can barely put it down-can barely continue.
Cheers and thanks again!
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A class project -- organizing student protests@ '81 Reagan Inaugur - earned me an A and an FBI File.
leveymg
Jan 2016
#5
''We have more will than wallet.'' -- George Herbert Walker Bush inaugural address
Octafish
Jan 2016
#8
One thing I know: Mills wrote about the Military Industrial Complex before there was such a term.
Octafish
Jan 2016
#13
The elites murdered Caesar, overthrew the Republic, and did themselves in for greed.
Octafish
Jan 2016
#14
Power Elite was assigned reading in my poli sci days. Read this from Robert Reich:
groovedaddy
Jan 2016
#9
Reich reminds us Princeton study looked at US political scene before Citizens United.
Octafish
Jan 2016
#15
Have you found Parenti's theses to be confirmed by events over the past 35 years, hifiguy?
Octafish
Jan 2016
#19
yes, the triangle of power, the illusion of democracy, and the inactionary masses, nt
amborin
Jan 2016
#12
That explains why his story is seldom told any more, as JFK, who also addressed class and power...
Octafish
Jan 2016
#27
The power elite have been using all these same tricks and treasons upon us for thousands of years
Dont call me Shirley
Jan 2016
#20
A simple, few indviduals, yes. But propped up and hoisted on the shoulders of the many.
raouldukelives
Jan 2016
#24
When Mill tried to get his PE published at U. of Texas Press, the book was rejected....
Eleanors38
Jan 2016
#30