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In case anyone is not aware, the tweeter, Kevin Kruse, is imo one of our greatest living American historians, currently at Princeton University. His book
One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America is a must read for anyone truly seeking to understand the origins of the left/right divide in this country. It's a history of an insidious intrigue to oppose any social program, which Kruse has laid out with meticulous documentation. It really is breathtaking the way he handles the material.

Imo, you really can't thoroughly understand where we are now, with out reading this book. I can't recommend it enough. Here's his webpage, which has a link to an interview he did with Terry Gross on NPRs Fresh Air. The interview was great and it gives you the gist of the book:

https://history.princeton.edu/people/kevin-m-kruse

>we will push out your ideology with facts, logic and sources

LOL, please go on, this is good stuff.

>if you would like to WIN this political war of ideas pick up a book

How is this book? Or this one? Or maybe this one.

Maybe you should start with this one though.

What on earth is your basis for that radiation/warmth hypothesis? You're just making stuff up.

My figures came from this interview with Joseph Romm, which is a good and patient overview of these issues. I recommend Romm's book as a starting point as well.

Many believed Trump is the actual writer of Trump Tower which is mostly a pornographic novel.

https://www.amazon.com/Trump-Tower-Perseus/dp/1593157355

Wikipedia page is a good source on this actually.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_Tower_(novel)

Ok, found more.

https://www.refinery29.com/2016/11/128367/donald-trump-sexist-novel-trump-tower

http://www.vulture.com/2016/10/donald-trump-reportedly-wrote-a-sexist-novel-trump-tower.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3893176/Did-Donald-Trump-write-Trump-Tower.html

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/news/donald-trump-trump-tower-novel-book-sex-and-workplace-racism-a7393041.html

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-novel_us_580a62bce4b0cdea3d874ca9

> It's called manufacturing consent

Which you've clearly never read.

You know who is the largest, most obvious influencer of the public opinion--outside of the Koch, DeVos, and Coors families? Spoiler alert: he owns Fox News, Wallstreet Journal, and a variety of other media outlets.

But you're thinking that Washington Post and New York Times are the biggest issues in this day and age, eh?

Kinda. She also used the somewhat different policies and platforms of places like Romania, which don't have much in common with the American Christian right. Her argument was that nothing happens in the novel that hasn't happened somewhere in the world. If you put them all together, they're kinda incoherent.

Also, the American Christian right aka the "Moral Majority" isn't anywhere near as powerful as they were in 1985. All of the major players from 1985 are dead. Nobody's called themselves that in 15 years. I'd go so far as to say that they're nearly powerless. Trust me, as a formerly conservative Christian, I watched it happen around me.

That's why you've got serious conservative Christian writers writing books like this about how Christians may just want to give up on influencing society altogether. So, the same kinds of things that more moderate to liberal Christian writers have been saying since the 1960s.

Remember when everyone was afraid George Bush would implement a theocracy in like 2001?

One thing we could do is use data, like all the other countries have. Rather than relying on these religious like ideologies.

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It's ok, this might help with your confusion

here's a book that considers these questions from a solidly academic yet nontraditional POV: https://www.amazon.com/Irreducible-Mind-Toward-Psychology-Century/dp/1442202068

i'm not going to try to convince you that consciousness cannot be neatly located in the human brain (which scientists sloppily refer to sometimes as "mind" -- as if that word has ANY scientific usefulness -- and this just speaks to the hugely imprecise way scientists speak and think about these things). if you're interested in the topic, i recommend the book above.

but let me ask you. what is consciousness exactly?

I think it'd be better to get a tv-b-gone and any time you see a tv somewhere with fox news, change the channel. Something like this or you can google and build your own. That's a decent way to stop the disinformation being spewed on Fox "news".

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For anyone interested, I suggest reading Alan Bloom's seminal work Closing of the American Mind which gives one explanation of how we ended up here (and it was published in the mid-80s)

With the Old Breed is literally named after WWI veterans who accompanied green soldiers into battle in WWII. That is one of the best known WWII memoirs and is taught in colleges.

Everyone should read Defying Hitler. It really puts into perspective thoughts like "That could never happen here".

No prob. And I agree with you on your "What's the matter with Kansas" point. Only money has nothing to do with it.

>That is an understatement: https://www.amazon.com/Torture-Machine-Racism-Violence-Chicago/dp/160846895X#customerReviews

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That’s an American brand. A real French brand is much more expensive .