{"id":1685,"date":"2017-08-25T21:48:02","date_gmt":"2017-08-26T04:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/?p=1685"},"modified":"2021-08-03T01:05:06","modified_gmt":"2021-08-03T08:05:06","slug":"democracy-in-chains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/2017\/08\/25\/democracy-in-chains\/","title":{"rendered":"Misinforming the Majority"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An interview by Mark Karlin, Truthout magazine, with writer Nancy MacLean, who&#8217;s book &#8216;Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right&#8217;s Stealth Plan for America&#8217; shines a light on the work of economist James McGill Buchanan who&#8217;s work inspired the Koch brothers, among others.<br \/>\nIf you have the nerve after 6+ months of Trump, you should read it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.truth-out.org\/opinion\/item\/41206-misinforming-the-majority-a-deliberate-strategy-of-right-wing-libertarians\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Buchanan convened corporate and rightwing leaders to teach them how to use what he called the &#8220;spectrum of secession&#8221; to undercut hard-won reforms through measures that have now become core to Republican practice: decentralization, devolution, federalism, privatization, and deregulation. We tend to see the race to the bottom as fallout from globalization, but Buchanan&#8217;s guidance and the Koch team&#8217;s application of it through the American Legislative Exchange Council and the State Policy Network reveals how it is in fact a highly conscious strategy to free capital of restraint by the people through their governments.&#8221; \t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An interview by Mark Karlin, Truthout magazine, with writer Nancy MacLean, who&#8217;s book &#8216;Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right&#8217;s Stealth Plan for America&#8217; shines a light on the work of economist James McGill Buchanan who&#8217;s work inspired the Koch brothers, among others. If you have the nerve after 6+ months of &#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/2017\/08\/25\/democracy-in-chains\/\">[Read more&#8230;]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14,17],"tags":[138,156,157,304,459,522,539,544,635,667,711,713,742,746,895,926,951,986,1010,1093,1154,1362,3513,1679,1681,1682,1685,1688,1689,1690,1691,1693,3514,1746,1759],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-sergneri","4":"has-excerpt","5":"post-1685","7":"format-standard","8":"category-politics","9":"category-racism","10":"category-thinking-about","11":"post_tag-alec","12":"post_tag-americans-for-prosperity","13":"post_tag-americans-for-tax-reform","14":"post_tag-brown-v-board-of-education","15":"post_tag-concerned-veterans-of-america","16":"post_tag-decentralization","17":"post_tag-deregulation","18":"post_tag-devolution","19":"post_tag-f-a-hayek","20":"post_tag-federalism","21":"post_tag-freedom-caucus","22":"post_tag-freedom-partners","23":"post_tag-generation-opportunity","24":"post_tag-george-mason-university","25":"post_tag-james-mcgill-buchanan","26":"post_tag-judicial-watch","27":"post_tag-koch","28":"post_tag-libertarian","29":"post_tag-ludwig-von-mises","30":"post_tag-milton-friedman","31":"post_tag-nancy-maclean","32":"post_tag-privatization","33":"post_tag-rightwing","34":"post_tag-the-american-legislative-exchange-council","35":"post_tag-the-cato-institute","36":"post_tag-the-club-for-growth","37":"post_tag-the-donors-trust","38":"post_tag-the-heritage-foundation","39":"post_tag-the-independent-institute","40":"post_tag-the-institute-for-justice","41":"post_tag-the-leadership-institute","42":"post_tag-the-mercatus-center","43":"post_tag-truthout","44":"post_tag-truthout-magazine","45":"post_tag-tyler-cowen"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1685"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4575,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1685\/revisions\/4575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}