Up from Conservatism
Autor Michael Linden Limba Engleză Paperback – 15 iul 1997
In Up From Conservatism, this former rising star of the right reveals what he believes to be the disturbing truth about the hidden economic agenda of the conservative elite. The Republican capture of the U.S. Congress in 1994 did not represent the conversion of the American public to conservative ideology. Rather, it marked the success of the thirty-year-old "southern strategy" begun by Barry Goldwater and Richard Nixon. From the Civil War to the civil rights revolution, the southern elite combined a low-wage, low-tax strategy for economic development with a politics of demagogy based on race-baiting and Bible-thumping. Now, Lind maintains, the economic elite that controls the Republican party is following a similar strategy on a national scale, using their power to shift the tax burden from the rich to the middle class while redistributing wealth upward.
To divert attention from their favoritism toward the rich, conservatives play up the "culture war," channeling popular anger about falling real wages and living standards away from Wall Street and focusing it instead on the black poor and nonwhite immigrants.
The United States, Lind concludes, could use a genuine "one-nation" conservatism that seeks to promote the interests of the middle class and the poor as well as the rich. But today's elitist conservatism poses a clear and present danger to the American middle class and the American republic.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780684831862
ISBN-10: 0684831864
Pagini: 304
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.32 kg
Ediția:98000
Editura: Free Press
Colecția Free Press
ISBN-10: 0684831864
Pagini: 304
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.32 kg
Ediția:98000
Editura: Free Press
Colecția Free Press
Notă biografică
Michael Lind is a senior editor of The New Yorker and author of The Next American Nation: The New Nationalism and the Fourth American Revolution. He lives in New York City.