Democracy in Chains

[L E Bryan]

Alas this sounds like a book that really should be a pamphlet, There are way too many books about contemporary economic/political problems, a lot of the issues covered multiple times in many books. I’d be willing to spend $5.00 for a 20 or 30 page article about issues like this, but not $28.00 and have one more barely read 300+ page book clogging up my book shelves. In fact the article’s review probably tells me all I want to know. That may be why I like the TNYRB so much.

The other problem is even after I know the history, the why’s of the right-wing anti-democratic forces, there is damned little I can do. Buchanan has been dead for four years. It’s a bit like knowing the details of what happened chemically to my body that resulted in me missing a left foot. 

How many Trump supporters read reviews in the NYTimes? Would it help to pay for a second subscription of, say, The Nation, to be sent to a random family in Mississippi?  

More depressing shit to learn about. 

<sigh> But thanks for pointing it out. I subscribe the digital Times but didn’t read that.

Lawrence, understanding more and more how Palestinian youth can blow themselves up in frustration over a historical situation with little hopes of resolution…
 



> On Sep 29, 2017, at 2:22 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> is a book I highly recommend to the politically minded, citizen-minded, 
> one vote for all, anti-Republican Plisters
> https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/15/books/review/democracy-in-chains-nancy-maclean.html?mcubz=0&_r=0 <https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/15/books/review/democracy-in-chains-nancy-maclean.html?mcubz=0&_r=0>
> 
> It has been mentioned before but my reason for mentioning it again is that, Ms MacLean documents how, after
> Watergate dramatically weakened Republican initiatives, Buchanan and his fellow Mt. Pelerin Society and U of Chicago
> Randian economists (via hayek)  met steadily in secret and planned in detail their attack on democracy and Buchanan
> called them all, 
> 
> the counterforce. 
> 

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