The System

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1. heymijoJan 2021
   I think these three books offer a solid framework for providing an answer to your question:

   1) The System: Who Rigged It, How We Fix It by Robert Reich [0]

   - Reich drops the buzzword neoliberalism in favor of the word power. I like that as neoliberalism is a terrible phrase for the concept it describes, but make no mistake, it's the insidious, invisible nature of neoliberalism that put our country in a position where neither party served the people well. That is what Reich describes here.

   2) The Loudest Voice in the Room: How the Brilliant, Bombastic Roger Ailes Built Fox News-and Divided a Country by Gabriel Sherman [1]

   - There is also a Showtime miniseries based on the book you could watch. Pair with the movie Bombshell

   3) Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right by Jane Mayer [2]

   [0] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52118381-the-system

   [1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15981705-the-loudest-voi...

   [2] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27833494-dark-money

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2. jeffbeeAug 2020
   There recently was a kerfuffle in Berkeley when Robert Reich, ex-Secretary of Laber, UC Berkeley professor, and author of "The System: Who Rigged It, How We Fix It" was found to have written a letter to the city in opposition of a small apartment building that is proposed to replace an empty detached house on the block where he lives in his 2-million-dollar house. There is often a gap between the positions taken in print, and the actions taken in practice.
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