Democracy in Chains

[Mark Kohut]

Well thru the Koch Brothers of today....SOME, just some, of the history
itself is depressingly riveting....could be a separate small book or
ebook......like how families fought back when Virginia CLOSED THE PUBLIC
SCHOOLS because of Brown vs. Board of Ed......I think I noted here on the
plist how sailors in Norfolk, sailors like Tom P. saw and helped......

The book does lead one so inclined to know some things to attempt to do,
imho. Starting with getting more read. Plister Allan Balliet first
mentioned it here on the list and HE got a podcast with her and has now
arranged fro her to speak, in December, in his town. I've gotten a
couple-three to read it--including a retired economist who DID know
Buchanan's work.......I'm helping Allan get people to the event and working
beyond that too....

On Fri, Sep 29, 2017 at 3:55 PM, L E Bryan <lebryan at sonic.net> wrote:

> 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
>
> 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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