{ 10 -29 http://xkcd.com/1127/large/ } , Frank describes the rise of political conservatism in the social and political landscape of Kansas, that he says espouses economic policies which do not benefit the majority of people in the state. ~ Out here the gravity of discontent pulls in only one direction: to the right, to the right, further to the right. Strip today's Kansans of their job security, and they head out to become registered Republicans. Push them off their land, and next thing you know they're protesting in front of abortion clinics. Squander their life savings on manicures for the CEO, and there's a good chance they'll join the John Birch Society. But ask them about the remedies their ancestors proposed (unions, antitrust, public ownership), and you might as well be referring to the days when knighthood was in flower. , 10 -21 Category:Extreme wingnuttery http://rationalwiki.org/wiki... http://rationalwiki.org/wiki... http://rationalwiki.org/wiki... , 10 -22 sort Fascist America, in 10 easy steps http://www.guardian.co.uk/world... , 10 -23 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... , 10 -26 In fact, Buckley's biographer John B. Judis wrote that "Buckley was beginning to worry that with the John Birch Society growing so rapidly, the right-wing upsurge in the country would take an ugly, even Fascist turn rather than leading toward the kind of conservatism National Review had promoted."[50] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... , 10 -28 http://www.nytimes.com/2012... , 11 -11 http://www.guardian.co.uk/books... Thomas Frank http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... The Rise of the American Oligarchy By Michael Kinsley http://www.nytimes.com/2012... http://www.youtube.com/watch... , 11 -12 sort http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... , 11 -14 Oz Books Monetary themes ? Not in Kansas anymore ? , History of settlement ... , 11 -22 http://www.nytimes.com/2012... , 1 -19 http://www.washingtontimes.com/news... , 1 -21 http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013... , 4 -28 http://www.npr.org/2013... - Thomas Page

The difference between the current crop of Tea Party lawmakers and Mr. Dole’s generation is not simply one of ideology. While the Tea Partiers are undoubtedly more extreme, Mr. Dole spent years pushing big tax cuts, railing at regulations and blocking international treaties. His party actively courted the religious right in the 1980s and relied on racial innuendo to win elections. But when the time came to actually govern, Republicans used to set aside their grandstanding, recognize that a two-party system requires compromise and make deals to keep the government working on the people’s behalf. The current generation refuses to do that. Its members want to dismantle government, using whatever crowbar happens to be handy, and they don’t particularly care what traditions of mutual respect get smashed at the same time. “I’m not all that interested in the way things have always been done around here,” Senator Marco Rubio of Florida told The Times last week. http://www.nytimes.com/2013... http://www.npr.org/blogs... - Thomas Page

Inverted totalitarianism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... , 7 -30 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... , 8 -2 political spectrum choices why? , 8 -3 http://friendfeed.com/citizen... 8 -18 ~ the United States is increasingly turning into an illiberal democracy, and uses the term "inverted totalitarianism" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... to illustrate similarities and differences between the United States governmental system and totalitarian regimes such as Nazi Germany and the Stalinist Soviet Union. ~ a system where corporations have corrupted and subverted democracy and where economics trumps politics.[5] In inverted totalitarianism, every natural resource and every living being is commodified and exploited to collapse as the citizenry are lulled and manipulated into surrendering their liberties and their participation in government through excess consumerism and sensationalism. 8 -18 sort https://friendfeed.com/citizen... - Thomas Page

Wichita ... Sort 2 -15 sort Hudson_Institute http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - Thomas Page

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8 -18 Kansa State Tax laws results ? 8 -25 http://www.salon.com/writer... - Thomas Page

1800s ] ! Now ! http://friendfeed.com/citizen...! Freedom to run your plantation as you see fit? [ 6 -9 wealth invested in slavery - wealth invested in carbon emissions ? 10 -4 sort to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... 10 -8 control of food supply field to fork ... ? - Thomas Page

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Paramilitary http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://www.urbandictionary.com/define... ? [[ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... sort "There’s a reason you separate military and the police. One fights the enemies of the state. The other serves and protects the people. When the military becomes both, then the enemies of the state tend to become the people." ~ That quote comes from Battlestar Galactica’s Commander Adama. He says it in the second episode of the first season of the series, “Water”, written by Ron Moore - Thomas Page

~ a system where corporations have corrupted and subverted democracy and where economics trumps politics.[5] In inverted totalitarianism, every natural resource and every living being is commodified and exploited to collapse as the citizenry are lulled and manipulated into surrendering their liberties and their participation in government through excess consumerism and sensationalism. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://www.dailykos.com/story... - Thomas Page

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10 -4 Legal Coruption ? Influence for the sake of doing what ? Evolved John Birch Stuff ? [[ 10 -5 ? I draw the line in the dust and toss the gauntlet before the feet of tyranny, and I say plantations now, plantations tomorrow, plantations forever. ? 10 -9 http://friendfeed.com/citizen... George Wallace speech writer 10 -14 Hannah_Arend http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... 10 -31 sort sort sort Martin Amis C Rose interview http://www.charlierose.com/watch... n.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Zone_of_Interest#Structure_and_Themes - Thomas Page