Comments on: The plot to overthrow the US Government and install a fascist dictator https://gregladen.com/blog/2019/08/02/the-plot-to-overthrow-the-us-government-and-install-a-fascist-dictator/ Sun, 04 Aug 2019 15:35:20 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.6 By: dean https://gregladen.com/blog/2019/08/02/the-plot-to-overthrow-the-us-government-and-install-a-fascist-dictator/#comment-789860 Sun, 04 Aug 2019 15:35:20 +0000 https://gregladen.com/blog/?p=32259#comment-789860 I had an interesting (and very good) history sequence during my junior/senior years of high school (graduated in 74). Two semesters of American history each year: junior year all the sources we read were from the US (and, for the Civil War portion, the Confederacy). Senior year covered the same material but all the sources were external: England, Europe, etc. Each year you had to write a paper covering the classes, due at the end of the second semester. The second paper, senior year, required us to compare the coverages from the two years of work. It was a bitch but in a good way.

This “conspiracy” was one of the issues that appeared in the first year’s material, somewhere between minor and major discussion. As I remember I came down on the “good story, probably wasn’t a real thing” side in our class discussions. I just ordered the Kindle version of this book to read: it will be interesting to get a new view and straighten out how much of that class material I remember correctly, how much I’ve forgotten, and how much I plain don’t remember or didn’t know.

]]> By: Bernard J. https://gregladen.com/blog/2019/08/02/the-plot-to-overthrow-the-us-government-and-install-a-fascist-dictator/#comment-789854 Sun, 04 Aug 2019 15:03:00 +0000 https://gregladen.com/blog/?p=32259#comment-789854 So Putin read this book, realised that he could use 21st century social media to carry clandestine propganda to the conservative voters of the USA, and achieved pretty much the same thing – but with a corrupted legitimate election masking the coup.

It’s a profoundly disturbing decent into political horror when The Plot to Seize the White House and The Handmaid’s Tale are more prescient analysis than fiction in their content…

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