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AuthorSteven Levitsky, Daniel Ziblatt
PublisherCrown
Publication dateJanuary 16, 2018
Print length299 pages
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • "Comprehensive, enlightening, and terrifyingly timely."The New York Times Book Review (Editors' Choice)

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Donald Trump's presidency has raised a question that many of us never thought we'd be asking: Is our democracy in danger? Harvard professors Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt have spent more than twenty years studying the breakdown of democracies in Europe and Latin America, and they believe the answer is yes. Democracy no longer ends with a bang—in a revolution or military coup—but with a whimper: the slow, steady weakening of critical institutions, such as the judiciary and the press, and the gradual erosion of long-standing political norms. The good news is that there are several exit ramps on the road to authoritarianism. The bad news is that, by electing Trump, we have already passed the first one.

Drawing on decades of research and a wide range of historical and global examples, from 1930s Europe to contemporary Hungary, Turkey, and Venezuela, to the American South during Jim Crow, Levitsky and Ziblatt show how democracies die—and how ours can be saved.

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"What we desperately need is a sober, dispassionate look at the current state of affairs. Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, two of the most respected scholars in the field of democracy studies, offer just that."The Washington Post

"Where Levitsky and Ziblatt make their mark is in weaving together political science and historical analysis of both domestic and international democratic crises; in doing so, they expand the conversation beyond Trump and before him, to other countries and to the deep structure of American democracy and politics."Ezra Klein, Vox

"If you only read one book for the rest of the year, read How Democracies Die. . . .This is not a book for just Democrats or Republicans. It is a book for all Americans. It is nonpartisan. It is fact based. It is deeply rooted in history. . . . The best commentary on our politics, no contest."—Michael Morrell, former Acting Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (via Twitter)

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ZENihilist
07-07-2022 at 07:17 PM.
07-07-2022 at 07:17 PM.
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Why on Earth should gender identity be discussed in Elementary school? Many public schools have kids who can't read or do math at grade level, but yeah! Let's introduce CRT and gender stuff.

If a child asks a teacher a question, they shouldn't be legally barred from answering it. For instance, I very much believe in keeping public school and religion separate but I'm not afraid of my kids teacher answering a question about religion.
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PreacherCruz
07-07-2022 at 08:52 PM.
07-07-2022 at 08:52 PM.
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I don't think legally barring a teacher from answering a question about non-binary people can be reasonably compared to barring a teacher from leading a classroom in prayer.

That's not really what's happening though. In many cases activist LGBTQ2INFINITY&BEYOND folks are foisting their personal information on young children not ready for such discussions.

There truly are SOME questions that family get to answer or that are deemed out of bounds.

You mentioned religion and that's a great example.

Most would say religious questions are not allowed in public schools and I'm a Christian...
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booboloo
07-07-2022 at 10:26 PM.
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I don't think legally barring a teacher from answering a question about non-binary people can be reasonably compared to barring a teacher from leading a classroom in prayer.
People coevolved with religion to further group fitness, prayer is ritual for cohesion. Questions again are not questions when it comes to the new cult of rainbow sterility as the questions quickly end when the facts become inconvenient as the facts are those identities are comorbid with mental illnesses and lifestyles which lead to actual illnesses. Monkey pox is not affecting the wider population for a reason, and some pandemics have been kept alive almost single handedly by such groups alone.. Those questions aren't questions, they are merely an attack on another religion, going after other people's children, planting seeds of doubt in the minds of the malleable, as even science shows brain maturation takes far longer than our laws would imply.

Children can be groomed, its why it's done, and its why there are efforts to protect them from the agendas of dysfunction who wish to exploit it.
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