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Some very wealthy, smart, and determined Americans oppose Democracy.
They see it as a means by which the poor can vote to confiscate the wealth of the rich through progressive taxation to underwrite social programs. For the past fifty years some of the richest, most powerful people in America have underwritten a program for the circumvention of Democracy. Major corporations have been involved as well. These efforts have been very effective. Our “democracy” is no longer producing programs that work for the majority of citizens and those programs that are in operation presently are under grave threat.
The story of this decline will be outlined in a series of short narratives organized to provide first the big picture and then increasingly detailed accounts with links to even greater detail for the more intrepid students among us. These narratives necessarily overlap somewhat but are numbered in order of increasing detail beginning with “Democracy Journey #1: The Short Story of Democracy’s Demise.”
If you’d like a better understanding of how we got here and what we can do about it, read this series of short synopses and explore the other information, including books and news resources, available on our website.
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Next Democracy Journey: "#1: The Short Story of Democracy’s Demise"
Written by Lawrence Lessig, this book charts the way in which the fundamental institutions of our democracy, including our media, respond to narrow interests rather than to the needs and wishes of the nation’s citizenry
Coming at a moment of profound political and social crisis, What Is Democracy? reflects on a word we too often take for granted.
Written by Nancy MacLean, this book is an explosive exposé of the right's relentless campaign to eliminate unions, suppress voting, privatize public education, and change the Constitution.
