How Billionaires Get Away With Their Big Con

The rich have been successfully chipping away at Americans’ trust in government for decades

About 75 percent of Americans trusted the federal government to “do what is right” when polled during most of the last years of the Eisenhower administration and early years of Lyndon B. Johnson’s presidency. In 2019, when the Pew Research Center released its most recent poll of public trust in the government, only 17 percent ...
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How Billionaires Get Away With Their Big Con

Authoritarianism and the Cultic Dynamic

Traumatic Narcissism in American Politics Today

I spent thirteen years of my life, including all of my thirties, as a fervent devotee of an Indian guru. I lived communally and worked full-time in the guru’s organization, until one day, after a long process I now know was me slowly coming out of dissociation, it dawned on ...
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Authoritarianism and the Cultic Dynamic