{"id":27993,"date":"2019-08-25T12:23:37","date_gmt":"2019-08-25T16:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=27993"},"modified":"2019-08-25T12:30:30","modified_gmt":"2019-08-25T16:30:30","slug":"democracy-in-chains-the-radical-rights-stealth-attack-on-american-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2019\/08\/25\/democracy-in-chains-the-radical-rights-stealth-attack-on-american-democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"Democracy in Chains: The Radical Right\u2019s Stealth Attack on American Democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Real News Network <\/em>has the video <a href=\"https:\/\/therealnews.com\/stories\/democracy-in-chains-the-radical-rights-stealth-attack-on-american-democracy\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Democracy in Chains: The Radical Right\u2019s Stealth Attack on American Democracy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nIn part one, Nancy Maclean reveals Nobel prize-winning economist James M. Buchanan as the architect of the Koch Brothers&#8217; secret campaign to undermine public education, unions, and to reshape America\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\">\n    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/MsBNwMjEo90\" style=\"border: thick ridge #009900;\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<pre><\/pre>\n<p>This is the exact reason that my alma mater, MIT, and I parted company when they built the David Koch funded cancer research center. They never would answer the question of what academic influence the Koch funding would have at MIT.  I refused to attend my 50th alumni reunion for fear of having to sit through <a href=\"https:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/dictionary\/paean\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">paeans<\/a> to David Koch.<\/p>\n<p>Also see my previous post about this book, <a href=\"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2018\/08\/27\/democracy-in-chains\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Democracy In Chains<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Real News Network has the video Democracy in Chains: The Radical Right\u2019s Stealth Attack on American Democracy. In part one, Nancy Maclean reveals Nobel prize-winning economist James M. Buchanan as the architect of the Koch Brothers&#8217; secret campaign to undermine public education, unions, and to reshape America This is the exact reason that my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-27993","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27993"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27998,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27993\/revisions\/27998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}