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RW Billionaires & GOP want a nation of (Original Post) whathehell Aug 2023 OP
Nailed it. republianmushroom Aug 2023 #1
Yes, thanks whathehell Aug 2023 #6
My next book will be "The Superhighway To Serfdom" lastlib Aug 2023 #2
I like the the title whathehell Aug 2023 #7
As you may have already surmised.... lastlib Aug 2023 #8
No, actually, I hadn't heard of that book.. whathehell Aug 2023 #9
Came out during WWII, IIRC lastlib Aug 2023 #10
Right, I just went to Amazon and checked it out whathehell Aug 2023 #11
K/R appalachiablue Aug 2023 #3
Betsy Devos agrees. sarcasmo Aug 2023 #4
Yes, well, I think Betsy is one of them whathehell Aug 2023 #5
George Carlin was right Norbert Aug 2023 #12
No, that's not going to happen. 21st century, not 19th. betsuni Aug 2023 #13
Huh? whathehell Aug 2023 #14
That the U.S. will be a nation of uneducated, compliant serfs. Huh? betsuni Aug 2023 #15
The article describes a goal whathehell Aug 2023 #16

whathehell

(29,090 posts)
6. Yes, thanks
Wed Aug 30, 2023, 08:05 PM
Aug 2023

I wish this sort of thing was talked about more in places like MSNBC, but even they are corporate owned. .

lastlib

(23,287 posts)
8. As you may have already surmised....
Wed Aug 30, 2023, 10:43 PM
Aug 2023

it's a play on the title of F. Hayek's book, "The Road To Serfdom" I'm just coming to the "same" conclusion he did, but from an entirely different direction. And we're going at it faster these days.....

whathehell

(29,090 posts)
9. No, actually, I hadn't heard of that book..
Wed Aug 30, 2023, 10:50 PM
Aug 2023

Thanks for that info..I will definitely be checking it out!



lastlib

(23,287 posts)
10. Came out during WWII, IIRC
Wed Aug 30, 2023, 10:56 PM
Aug 2023

Hayek was worried about the spread of Marxist/communist ideology, and thought we were all headed to state-controlled slavery. The John Birch Society was a big promoter of the book.

whathehell

(29,090 posts)
11. Right, I just went to Amazon and checked it out
Wed Aug 30, 2023, 11:31 PM
Aug 2023

Old anti- Communist, Cold War stuff. I remember that even as the kid I was during the 50's and beyond. We had to duck under our desks for air raid practice and stuff.

Norbert

(6,041 posts)
12. George Carlin was right
Thu Aug 31, 2023, 04:39 AM
Aug 2023

"They want obedient workers, obedient workers, people just smart enough to run the machines and just dumb enough to passively accept their situation."

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