Fuck you.

And we’ll be okay. Honest.

Because the current book with chapters on Impotent Rage, How to Channel Racism and Fear, and How Frustration Boiled over into Self-Annihilation

I agree. They are the leading experts on impotent rage, racism and fear, and self-annihilation.

“Furthermore, the people that are showing up at these meetings don’t appear to have the brains god gave an animal. Especially the elderly.”
The median age of these confused losers is an embarrassment, since I’m 66 myself. What I can figure is that many are bigots, stuck in the 1950′s, whose unexamined prejudices allow them to be manipulated more than most other benighted souls. And we all know how voluble and grouchy most oldsters are. It comes with the territory.

What on earth does this sentence even mean?

Sociologist of the U.S. power structure G. William Domhoff now has his 6th edition released of the famed and long-selling text Who Rules America, now subtitled, post 2008, “Challenges to Corporate and Class Dominance”.

My book, Who Rules America?, presents detailed original information on how power and politics operate in the United States. The first edition came out in 1967 and is ranked 12th on the list of 50 best sellers in sociology between 1950 and 1995. A second edition, Who Rules America Now?, arrived in 1983 and landed at #43 on the same list. Third and fourth editions followed in 1998 and 2002, and the fifth edition, upon which most of this web site is based, came out in 2006.

The sixth edition of WRA has just been released, and is available at Amazon.com (and other bookstores). This new edition has information on the rise of Barack Obama, his campaign finance supporters, and the nature of his administration. The last chapter focuses on the potential for serious challenges to class and corporate dominance. It does not have answers, but it raises the key questions and states the possibilities, noting that the strategies and tactics adopted by activists are an essential part of the power equation…

Questions and Answers

Q: So, who does rule America?

A: The owners and managers of large income-producing properties; i.e., corporations, banks, and agri-businesses. But they have plenty of help from the managers and experts they hire. You can read the essential details of the argument in this summary of Who Rules America?, or look for the book itself at Amazon.com.

Q: Do the same people rule at the local level that rule at the federal level?

A: No, not quite. The local level is dominated by the land owners and businesses related to real estate that come together as growth coalitions, making cities into growth machines.

Q: Do they rule secretly from behind the scenes, as a conspiracy?

A: No, conspiracy theories are wrong, though it’s true that some corporate leaders lie and steal, and that some government officials try to keep things secret (but usually fail).

Q: Then how do they rule?

A: That’s a complicated story, but the short answer is through open and direct involvement in policy planning, through participation in political campaigns and elections, and through appointments to key decision-making positions in government.

Q: Are you saying that elections don’t matter?

A: No, but they usually matter a lot less than they could, and a lot less in America than they do in other industrialized democracies. That’s because of the nature of the electoral rules and the unique history of the South.

Q: Does social science research have anything useful to say about making progressive social change more effective?

A: Yes, it does, but few if any people pay much attention to that research.

Pay attention to that last line. He’s got a dry sense of humor.

I notice that the bestselling nonfiction currently atop the New York Times bestseller list is “Glenn Beck’s ‘Common Sense.’” (sigh) What’s been said about popularity, even among the book-buying, is as infinitely sad as it is true.

The top three all time best sellers:
1. The Bible
2. Mao’s little red book
3. The Koran

Well, congrats, freDdosso, at least book #2 is one liberals have supported and moved up on the bestseller list. So they’ve got that goin’ for them.

In your face, asshole.

Burned, it’d be in my face if there had been a decision in the case. As it is, anyone can file a lawsuit.

Aside from that, it comes nowhere close, not even in the same universe, of explaining the overall book sales of bestselling conservative tomes.

I was actually joking about Soros too, but that shows how fucking dumb you really are, thinking I was serious.

How would anyone know you were serious, Burned, you’ve only shown your one-dimensional asshole side here. You’ve never joked about anything.

If you want to argue the merits, we can have a go at it.

Please, no, just, no.

Mention Soros, and whatever IQ points the wingnuts have drops another 20.