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The book is formatted as a series of responses by Beck, dressed up in a variation of an outfit worn by the United States' Founding Fathers, to statements made by the "Idiot", played by Beck, apparently dressed in a parody of a military uniform, consisting of a modified Bundeswehr tunic and Soviet visor cap, with an example picture on the front cover. [note 1] On the back cover are a few of the ...
Sack served as a contributing author to the New York Times bestseller Arguing With Idiots: How to Stop Small Minds and Big Government (Threshold, 2009) [ 5] as well as Cowards: What Politicians, Radicals, and the Media Refuse to Say (Threshold, 2009). [ 6]
Criticism of democracy has been a key part of democracy, its functions, and its development throughout history. Plato famously opposed democracy, arguing for a 'government of the best qualified'; James Madison extensively studied the historic attempts at and arguments on democracy in his preparation for the Constitutional Convention; and Winston Churchill remarked that "No one pretends that ...
Ronald Reagan popularized the idea of small government, which ended up being great for the top one percent of America, but has recently been shown to have some problems. This idea has influenced ...
Kakistocracy. A kakistocracy (/ kækɪˈstɒkrəsi /, / kækɪsˈtɒ -/) is a government run by the worst, least qualified, or most unscrupulous citizens. [1]: 54 [2][3] The word was coined as early as the seventeenth century. [4] Peter Bowler has noted in his book that there is no word for the government run by the best citizens, [a] and that ...
Trump, rejecting advice, tries mockery, insults, AI against Kamala, but is it working? Howard Kurtz August 21, 2024 at 3:00 AM
Premise The Disquisition on Government is a 100-page essay on Calhoun's definitive and comprehensive ideas on government, which he worked on intermittently for six years until its 1849 completion. [ 1 ] It systematically presents his arguments that a numerical majority in any government will typically impose a despotism over a minority unless some way is devised to secure the assent of all ...
I googled "Arguing with Idiots book review" and my first click was here . Didn't read the whole thing, but here's a good excerpt: Beck covers all the bases in the book, from defending Capitalism to the nanny state and universal health care.