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Reaganism and the Death of Representative Democracy (Hardcover)
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Reaganism and the Death of Representative Democracy (Hardcover)
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This is a reasoned but passionate look at how Reaganism - the
political philosophy of Ronald Reagan - has severely damaged
representative democracy as created by the nation's founders.
According to Williams, Reagan and his foremost disciple George W.
Bush have created a plutocracy where the United States is no longer
a government of the people, by the people, and for the people but
is ruled by the wealthiest individuals and corporate America.
Refreshingly unafraid to point out that Reaganism's anti-government
fundamentalism stands on feet of clay, Walter Williams asks that
Americans move from their political apathy to pay attention to the
politicians and the corporations lurking behind the power curtain
to see the dangers they represent to the true essential of the
American way of life. Williams' most important contribution is his
extended analysis of the central role the key institutions - the
presidency, Congress, the federal agencies - must play for the U.S.
government to be capable in both sustaining representative
democracy and protecting the safety and economic security of the
American people. A clear result of the weakened institutions has
been the grossly inadequate homeland security effort following
September 11, and the massive corporate fraud revealed by Enron and
other large firms that robbed the nation of hundreds of billions of
dollars in stock values and depleted the pension savings of
millions of people. The initial destructive blow that damaged the
institutions of governance can be traced to Ronald Reagan and his
simplistic antigovernment philosophy that fostered rapacious
business practices and personal greed. The book also takes the
media to task, criticizing the dismal record of failing to
investigate the political and corporate chicanery that has brought
us to this pass. Keenly argued and scrupulously documented, Walter
Williams has written a stinging wake-up call to the dangers of the
demise of representative democracy and the rise of plutocracy that
American citizens can ignore only at their peril.
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