Posted on 05/11/2015 5:33:53 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Review of "By the People: Rebuilding Liberty Without Permission" by Charles Murray.
BY THE PEOPLE: Rebuilding Liberty Without Permission
By Charles Murray
Crown Forum. 319 pages. $27.
From the tea party to Occupy Wall Street to #BlackLivesMatter, America has spent much of this young century questioning its premises. And as the battles over federal spending, economic inequality and racial injustice continue, Charles Murray comes forward to identify another threat to the nation’s purpose and self-image: the rise of the regulatory state, a rapacious shadow government that has left us “at the end of the American project as the founders intended it.”
Murray, a political scientist and professional controversy magnet at the American Enterprise Institute, is known for “Losing Ground,” which deemed the welfare state a failure; “The Bell Curve,” which linked intelligence, race and socioeconomic outcomes; and “Coming Apart,” which declared that white America is torn by class and values. In “By the People,” he not only offers a bleak assessment of the health of American democracy but — and here is where things get interesting — calls for civil disobedience aimed at rehabilitating it.
Some may think of civil disobedience as a tactic employed mainly in the service of liberal causes — think civil rights or antiwar efforts — but Murray exhorts conservatives to issue “a declaration of limited resistance to the existing government,” on the grounds that it has lost legitimacy. If “Atlas Shrugged” had been written by a despondent social scientist instead of a dyspeptic novelist, it would read a lot like “By the People.”(continued)
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“Who will bell the cat?”
I love a right iconoclast!
As do I.
L
Disobedience from 300 yds...
Vote from the rooftops. It’scoming, want it or not.
L
Massive noncompliance. Cloward-Piven them to death.
It is like Gandhi said: “A few thousand Englishmen simply cannot rule a few million Indians without their consent. Stop consenting.”
FYI, to anyone that likes this idea, check out ij.org
Having just finished the book, it is well researched, annotated, a how-to as much as a why-for. It was finished before the FCC claimed the internet and does not account for the handicap of government sabotage of coordinating organizations. Yes, I can see the government doing something like that. Would the Supreme Court overturn it? Of course. But how many of 0bama’s moves has the Supreme Court already overturned to no effect?
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