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I am not a subject. I am a citizen
I never considered the distinction between those two nouns until I read Blood and Ruins: The Last Imperial War, 1931-1945, by Richard Overy. In laying out every detail leading to and encompassing World War II, Overy tells us that the … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Fascism, Government, Human rights, Jan 6, political campaigns, Politics, Propaganda, Racism, The Facts of Life, The god problem, Trumpism, voting rights, War on women
Tagged "Blood and Ruins, American citizenship, democracy, despots, Einsatzgruppen, Erich Fromm, Escape From Freedom, Hitler, Hungary, MAGA, Pico della Mirandola, Richard Overy, strongmen, subjects and citizens, the Talmud, Third Reich, Thomas Jefferson, World War II
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We are still fighting the American Revolution
For quite a while now I’ve been feeling that we’ve moved into the next phase of the American Revolution. Among the previous phases were the original American Revolution, the Civil War, demand for suffrage, the New Deal and the battle … Continue reading
Posted in Koch Bros Final Solution to Democracy, political campaigns, Politics, Racism, The Facts of Life, The filthy rich, Trumpism, voting rights
Tagged "libertarian" capitalism, Abraham Lincoln, American revolution, civil rights, Civil War, Crazy Horse, Declaration of Independence, Fourth of July, George Washington, Independence Day, Mother Jones, Neu Wannsee Conference, Preamble to the Constitution, Theodore Roosevelt, Thomas Jefferson, Timothy Egan
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How did democracy become the enemy? One book gave me the answer
In his eloquent NYT opinion piece,“How Democracy Become the Enemy,” Roger Cohen talks about what’s been going on in — primarily — Eastern Europe lately. The squib underneath his title reads, “In Hungary and Poland, the liberal West used to … Continue reading
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Tagged Erich Fromm, Escape From Freedom, how did democracy become the enemy, inalienable rights of man, Oratio de Hominis Dignitate, Pico della Mirandola, Roger Cohen, the Talmud, Thomas Jefferson
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