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"This book proclaims that the United States has transformed into a system of government run exclusively by and for the wealthy, with Trump, the spirit of infinite greed, at its executive helm. With his deep expertise in anti-corruption law, Kuhner exposes the moral, religious, and even spiritual paths that led America to political and monetary corruption, and calls upon the American revolutionary tradition to provide a bridge between talk and action, an immodest yet necessary proposal for action and reform"--… (more)
Emilyt804: If you liked the prequel, you’ll like the sequel.
Tyranny Of Greed explains the Donald Trump phenomenon, as well as the deeper motives of the voters who elected him, in the context that Capitalism v. Democracy creates.
Emilyt804: Daniella Mestyanek Young’s detailed analysis of cults, bad groups, and extremely bad leadership, and the organizational psychology thereof dovetails nicely with Kuhner’s psychological and theological analyses of Trump voters’ behaviors.
Emilyt804: Kuhner rips through several academic disciplines inside of a sentence to explain why Trump became an American political phenomenon, and why we can expect more of the same types of bad politics/law absent a revolution of moral thought. Kristin Kobes duMez uses the lenses of theology and gender studies to explain why so many white male evangelicals justify support for Donald Trump and other badly-behaved, toxic politicians and hangers-on. If you need one of these books for an essay or a research paper, I recommend them both.… (more)
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Thus far, the twenty-first century is thrashing humanity with a sort of violence generally confined to science fiction or biblical times.
Quotations
It turns out that you can't sell beauty that way unless you're a pimp.
Marketing experts have long sold products by associating them with beauty and wealth, as in the bikini model sliding a popsicle into her mouth and the Land Rover parked outside an aristocrat's estate.
They're basking in his light, for Trump is a beacon.
Only plutocrats, oligarchs, and kleptocrats think and act as though the purpose of politics were money-making.
Could anything be more treacherous than selling out children, the environment, posterity, and financial stability for personal gain?
While those migrants and their children endure gruesome conditions and suffer the psychological trauma of forced separation, the wardens and prison executives eat Trump steaks and play golf at Trump resorts.
…infinite sin in the place of their prior light. So too with black holes. They used to be stars.
Those conditions include rights without responsibilities, consumerism, de-unionization, deregulation, privatization, commodification, corporate welfare, and austerity (cuts to education, healthcare, housing, poverty relief, and retirement security).
This species has little choice but to satisfy its epistemic, existential, relational, and affective needs through an emaciated social order.
Last words
It's in our power to choose this dark night, allow cowardice to fall dead, and let the national soul be fortified.
"This book proclaims that the United States has transformed into a system of government run exclusively by and for the wealthy, with Trump, the spirit of infinite greed, at its executive helm. With his deep expertise in anti-corruption law, Kuhner exposes the moral, religious, and even spiritual paths that led America to political and monetary corruption, and calls upon the American revolutionary tradition to provide a bridge between talk and action, an immodest yet necessary proposal for action and reform"--
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