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The Blind Spot: How Oligarchs Dominate Our Democracy
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An Urgent And Shocking Examination Of How The UltraRich Dominate Democracies, Hoard Political Power, And Maintain InequalityAnd How We Might Chart Another Path.The Wealthy And Powerful Few Have Dominated The Many Throughout Most Of Human History. This Is Now More Starkly Visible Than EverA Time When, With Politicians Bought And Paid For Across The Political Spectrum, The Gulf Between Oligarchs And Average Citizens Is Larger Than Any Gap That Existed During European Feudalism Or The Slave Society Of Imperial Rome. One Thing Is Clear: The World Is Heading Into An Even Deeper State Of Inequality, One That Oligarchs Of Past Eras Could Only Have Dreamed Of. The Strange Thing Is, For The First Time In History, This Domination Is Accomplished Through Democracy. Yet We ArenT In Open Revolt Against The System. In Fact, We Seemingly Keep Voting To Prop It Up. Why?In The Blind Spot, Political Scientist Jeffrey Winters Delivers A Timely, Incisive Account Of How We Reached This Era Of InYourFace Oligarchy. Tracing The Evolution Of Wealth Power Through The Modern Democratic Era, He Demonstrates How Domination By Oligarchs IsnT Just A Flaw In Our Democracy, But A Foundational FeatureAllowing The Wealthy To Limit The Agenda, Control The Marketplace Of Ideas, And Rewire The Law To Defend, Hide, And Increase Their Money And Power. Now, In An Extraordinary Paradox, We Exist In A State Of Participatory Inequality, A World In Which The 99.99 Percent Of Us Participate Openly, Freely, And Democratically In Our Own Ongoing Exclusion And Exploitation.But The Blind Spot Ultimately Sounds A Clarion Call For Change, Arming Us Not Only With A Vital Lens Through Which We Can Understand Just How Bad Our Political Reality Has Become, But Also With Bold Ideas For How We Might Shift The Balance Of Power. While Powerful Oligarchs Do Not Cede Power Willingly, This Period Of Shocking Inequality Is Nevertheless An Opportunity For Change.
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