The end of America
by Naomi Wolf · first published 2007
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Author Wolf shows that there are ten classic steps would-be dictators always take when they wish to close down an open society, and shows how each of those ten steps is underway in the United States today. Our Constitution was built to protect civil liberties and develop a careful system of checks and balances which protect our freedom from tyranny. Wolf argues that the escalation of executive power has eroded these core values and systems, limiting the ability of our Congress to make laws, and of our courts to interpret them--a scenario that our Founding Fathers foresaw and warned against. In
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I'd say that her books The End of America and Give Me Liberty give her more than adequate standing - certainly more than most posters on this board - to comment on the current question ... far more deserving than a dismissive 'pop feminist' handwave.
on “Naomi Wolf: My Creeping Concern That The NSA Leaker Is Not Who He Purports To Be” ↗All of our rights are under attack. “The End of America” by Naomi Wolf [0] provides a compelling outline of how this has unfolded, and the situation has only gotten worse since its publication. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_End_of_America:_Letter_of_...
on “The Constitutionality of Civil Forfeiture (2016)” ↗Naomi Wolf is as prescient today as she was in 2007: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_End_of_America:_Letter_o... The easiest way to build internal cohesion is to invent or create an external enemy and distract everyone with that. I tend to agree, though. The conflict feels manufactured by the respective…
on “I spoke with a Google worker fired for protesting $1.2B Israel contract” ↗…fundamental civil liberties have been curtailed in similarly countless ways. For anyone doubting the veracity of this assertion, I recommend the now-dated-but-still-pertinent book by Naomi Wolff, "The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot". Read it and start sharpening your pitchfork. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wickard_v._Filburn [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_End_of_America:_Letter_of_...
on “The End of Uber with Cory Doctorow” ↗…linked piece and thus it's legitimate to question that authority. Neither of those books addresses whistleblowing or the NSA in any detail. e.g.: the word whistleblower appears precisely once in The End Of America. Neither the acronym "NSA" nor the phrase "National Security Agency" appears at all. So if Wolf does have some sort of authority in this very specific domain, it doesn't come from those books as you claim.
on “Naomi Wolf: My Creeping Concern That The NSA Leaker Is Not Who He Purports To Be” ↗"In The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot, Wolf takes a historical look at the rise of fascism, outlining 10 steps necessary for a fascist group (or government) to destroy the democratic character of a nation-state…
on “Naomi Wolf: My Creeping Concern That The NSA Leaker Is Not Who He Purports To Be” ↗