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Book Review: The Wrecking Crew |
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Written by Steve
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Friday, 16 April 2010 15:12 |
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In What's The Matter With Kansas? Thomas Frank explained how conservatives hoodwink (mostly poor) Americans into voting against their own financial self-interest. In The Wrecking Crew, he goes into detail about what they do once they win the elections. While Frank covers all the expected corruption and incompetence, he frames these issues as being integral components of the conservative ideology rather than simple cases of greed and misguided policy. Frank makes a good case that many of the terrible decisions made by conservative leaders are in fact part of a plan to turn their view of government as a bloated, incompetent, and expensive bureaucracy into a self-fulfilling prophecy.
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