Meet the Economist Behind the One Percent’s Stealth Takeover of America. Nobel laureate James Buchanan is the intellectual linchpin of the Koch-funded attack on democratic institutions, argues Duke historian Nancy MacLean Ask people to name the key minds that have shaped America’s burst of radical right-wing attacks on working conditions, consumer rights and public services, and they will typically mention figures like free market-champion Milton Friedman, libertarian guru Ayn Rand, and laissez-faire economists Friedrich Hayek and Ludwig von Mises.
James McGill Buchanan is a name you will rarely hear unless you’ve taken several classes in economics. And if the Tennessee-born Nobel laureate were alive today, it would suit him just fine that most well-informed journalists, liberal politicians, and even many economics students have little understanding of his work. Two-party system under threat?
This is a bit off topic for this blog, but it’s been on my mind lately… Libertarians have a problem.
We are not taken seriously. We don’t have the numbers, we’re seen as radical, and the two main parties are not going to permit any third party to even get close to threatening their cozy oligarchy. There are certainly Democrats, Republicans, and especially independents who sympathize with libertarians on some issues, but when they vote, they tend to pick a candidate that represents their position on a broader spectrum of issues, so they give their vote to one of the traditional mainstream party candidates. And, the two parties are totally content with that situation. The political status quo in the U.S. is ensured by the fact that voters have to pick between two political power groups and have almost no means to influence the government on any individual issue, which is why government can do what it pleases despite public sentiment. The Tactics of Authoritarianism: Fear « (((Billy))) The Atheist. They (who) seek to establish systems of government based on the regimentation of all human beings by a handful of individual rulers call this a new order.
It is not new and it is not order. Franklin Delano Roosevelt FDR knew his history. Paranoia strikes deep: GOP exposes ‘dangerous’ U.N. sustainability plot. Put your U.N.
-proof thinking caps on. (Photo by Arden.) Things at GOP headquarters are even more crazytown than we could have imagined. The Republican National Committee — the group that shapes the national GOP political platform, devises campaign strategies, promotes candidates, and bashes all things Obama — passed a resolution in January warning Americans of a sinister plot hidden in a United Nations report called Agenda 21. Study: Tea Party Members Cultural Dispositions ‘Authoritarianism, Fear Of Change, Libertarianism And Nativism’ What are the four primary characteristics most associated with those Americans sympathetic to the Tea Party?
"Authoritarianism, ontological insecurity (fear of change), libertarianism and nativism. " So says one of the many findings in a study presented to the American Sociological Association on Monday. The academic study, Cultures of the Tea Party, purports to break down the cultural attitudes of Tea Party loyalists, through a mix of polling data and interviews with tea partiers at a gathering in eastern North Carolina. The study's lead author is Andrew J. Perrin, an associate professor of sociology at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, with co-authors Steven J. The Authoritarians. (Home Page Preface Written in 2006) OK, what’s this book about?
It’s about what’s happened to the American government lately. The politics of American anti-intellectualism. Nothing is more political than education.
Army colonel ignites firestorm with article on crushing a 'tea party insurgency' - National Conservative. A retired U.S.
Army colonel who now teaches modern warfare to soldiers at the University of Foreign Military and Cultural Studies at Fort Leavenworth, Kan. has co-written an article with a Civil War expert that has ignited a firestorm today among those increasingly concerned about what some say is a distinct anti-civilian tone that has infected much of the military and Homeland Security since 2009.
Retired Col. Kevin Benson and Jennifer Weber, Associate Professor of History at the University of Kansas, co-wrote an article for Small Wars Journal on a 2010 Army report titled, "U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command, The Army Operating Concept 2016 - 2028. " Flirting with treason: The insurrectionist ideology of the NRA leadership - Tulsa FBI. The Revolt of the Lower Middle Class and the Stupidity of the Elites. Sen.
Ted Cruz (R-Texas) speaks to reporters after a Senate meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington, Oct. 16, 2013.