The Deep State: The Fall of the Constitution and the Rise of a Shadow Government.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lofgren, Mike.

Contributor:

GIC Course Text Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political Science.

Local Subjects:

Political Science.

Summary:

Every four years, tempers are tested and marriages fray as Americans head to the polls to cast their votes. But does anyone really care what we think? Has our vaunted political system become one big, expensive, painfully scripted reality TV show? In this cringe-inducing exposé of the sins and excesses of Beltwayland, a longtime Republican-party insider argues that we have become an oligarchy in form if not in name. Hooked, on war, genuflecting to big donors, in thrall to discredited economic theories, and utterly bereft of a moral compass, America's governing classes ate selling their souls to entrenched interests while our bridges collapse, our wages stagnate, and our water is undrinkable. Drawing on insights gleaned over | three decades on Capitol Hill, Lofgren paints a gripping portrait of tile dismal swamp on the Potomac and the revolution it will take to set us back on course. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Beltwayland 7

2 What Is the Deep State? 30

3 Bad Ideas Have Consequences 48

4 Do Elections Matter? 63

5 Does Our Defense Actually Defend America? 89

6 Economic Warfare: Big Banks and the National Security State 107

7 The Commanding Heights 123

8 The Deep State, the Law, and the Constitution 140

9 Silicon Valley and the American Panopticon 160

10 Personnel Is Policy 176

11 Austerity for Thee hut Not for Me 203

12 A Stopped Clock Is Right Twice a Day 218

13 Signs of Change? 237

14 America Confronts the World 250

15 Is There an Alternative? 266.

ISBN:

9780143109938