HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT is on sale as an ebook today for only $2.99! Here's an excerpt: - ThreadSky

sarahkendzior.bsky.social • 14 days ago

HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT is on sale as an ebook today for only $2.99! Here's an excerpt:

Reposted from Sarah Kendzior

An excerpt from my book HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT (2020) summing up the current situation:

Comments

joceh.bsky.social•14 days ago

Annnnd my anxiety rises again (I’ve read your book). What are some things we can do? That’s what I’d like to know.

pennpace.bsky.social•14 days ago

Just bought it!!

zeia.bsky.social•14 days ago

https://bookshop.org/p/books/hiding-in-plain-sight-the-invention-of-donald-trump-and-the-erosion-of-america-sarah-kendzior/VTEHQi7uduoUXQpX?ean=9781250245397&next=t&digital=t

banana91.bsky.social•14 days ago

On Amazon or Bookshop?

iawoodchuck.bsky.social•14 days ago

you inspire me
https://rickeywoody.substack.com/p/more-than-a-coup-part-3

merri24.bsky.social•14 days ago

Can we buy it somewhere other than Amazon?

ronduplantis.bsky.social•14 days ago

Thanks for your insight.

I would add one more critical point -- The founders' original intent WRT power concentration was ONE STEP of concentration. That being, the sovereign power EACH citizen holds being lent collectively to ONE representatives. Period.

When that representative entered, ... 1/

ronduplantis.bsky.social•14 days ago

2/ ... say the House of Representatives, EVERY rep was equal in power. Every decision was made by a vote of ALL members (committee assignments, bills to cmte markup, bills for a final vote on the floor). That was ATOMIZED power in govt.

We the People messed up circa 1832, when we allowed ...

ronduplantis.bsky.social•14 days ago

3/ ... political parties to concentrate power further by making the numerical majority party in CONTROL of actual govt functions & power. Thus making the other party IRRELEVANT. Of course, early on many factors softened that concentration of power (liberal Rs, conservative Ds, for instance). But...

ronduplantis.bsky.social•14 days ago

4/ ... over time, the two parties have purified their ranks, removing liberals from the Rs and conservatives from the Ds. And meanwhile, the parties have concentrated power even FURTHER: In the hands of leadership positions and ultimately, via party alignment/allegiance across branches, in the ...

ronduplantis.bsky.social•14 days ago

5/ ... hands of one man.

That's how we got here. If we'd not ALLOWED party control of govt functions and made the other almost-half of reps IRRELEVANT, there'd never been a brass ring of control that an autocrat like Trump & his sycophants could grab.

We can/must fix this: http://www.realindependent.com

saskiacat1.bsky.social•14 days ago

I have a gift card so I bought it. Thanks for the heads up.

murzee.bsky.social•14 days ago

Just purchased. Read a library copy years a go. Thanks, Sarah.

Comments

Posting Rules

Reply