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The Ruling Class: How They Corrupted America and What We Can Do About It 1st Edition, Kindle Edition

by Angelo M. Codevilla (Author), Rush Limbaugh (Author, Introduction) Format: Kindle Edition
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In this profound and incisive work, Angelo M. Codevilla introduces readers to the Ruling Class, the group of bipartisan political elites who run America. This Ruling Class, educated at prestigious universities and convinced of its own superiority, has everything to gain by raising taxes and expanding the reach of government. This class maintains that it knows what is best and continually increases its power over every facet of American life, from family and marriage to the environment, guns, and God.It is becoming increasingly apparent that this Ruling Class does not represent the interests of the majority of Americans, who value self-rule and the freedom on whose promise America was founded. Millions of Americans are now reasserting our right to obey the Constitution, not the Ruling Class. This desire transcends all organizations and joins independents, Republicans, and Democrats into The Country Party, whose members embody the ideas and habits that made America great. The majority of Americans feel that the Ruling Class is demeaning us, impoverishing us, demoralizing us, and want to be rid of it.
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Angelo M. Codevilla is professor emeritus of international relations at Boston University. Educated at Rutgers, Notre Dame, and the Claremont graduate university, Codevilla served in the US Navy, the US Foreign Service, and on the US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. He taught philosophy at Georgetown, and spent a decade at Stanford's Hoover Institution. He has written 10 previous books.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0040JHNZW
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Beaufort Books; 1st edition (September 12, 2010)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ September 12, 2010
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 355 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 178 pages
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Save your money. You need go no further than this in the description: "This Ruling Class, educated at prestigious universities and convinced of its own superiority, has everything to gain by raising taxes and expanding the reach of government."True enough that this ruling class exists, but these clowns want you to believe that the ruling class is a bunch of liberals instead of reactionary conservatives or Fascists.This ruling class has been in power since 1981 and they ain't been raising taxes and expanding the reach of government--except for the parts that make war and spy on all of us. They've been slashing taxes (for themselves mostly) and running up trillions of dollars in debt. Then, they have been actively working to reduce the reach of government, running up huge debt with uncollected taxes and massive military spending. They're killing our schools, making college education unaffordable, allowing our infrastructure to fall apart, letting crooks at our big corporations and bigger banks run wild. They keep EPA from keeping toxins out of your drinking water and the air you breathe--and they hate OSHA for trying to keep working people alive and in one piece. Oh,and they also bailed out the big banks.
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Lloyd S. Cheairs
5.0 out of 5 stars A Very Good Book
Reviewed in the United States on December 20, 2012
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I think Angelo Codevilla is a good writer. And the topic of this book is important, which he covers very well. Normally with most books I only read a few chapters before going to bed each night, but this one I read without setting it aside. It is that good. Sadly I do not have any hope we can change things back to what they were, and this nation is on its way down as a power and maybe as a country. The light of freedom will not shine again for a long time, if ever, afterward. Both political sides at the top rule independent of the "will of the people" and the constitution; and any new crop we send to Washington are quickly neutralized and absorbed. I see no hope short of civil war and no one can say how that would come out. And most likely we would be worse off. When I took many years of Latin long ago I use to wonder why the Romans did not stop the decay and fall of their empire. I now know. For you ask, where have all our promises gone? We traded them for a pocket full of mumbles one by one, which soon will all be gone.
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LINDA SUNKLE-PIERUCKI
5.0 out of 5 stars Codevilla is on the right track
Reviewed in the United States on April 21, 2016
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Codevilla gets it right-as usual. The pernicious results of damaging activities perpetuated by the 'ruling class' have injured this once-free nation-perhaps beyond repair. The problem is age-old: how to get the Ruling Class to actually reduce their own power to allow the rest of us to thrive.This is going to be very difficult to do via the ballot box as the systems in place to perpetuate power make it nearly impossible to put more representative choices in place in sufficient numbers to make a real change. Further, if the entire government were to actually wind up in the hands of a truly representative group (many of whom would quickly decide to cut themselves a slice of the pie, given human nature), the overwhelming numbers of a government bureaucracy populated with wannabe dictators and totalitarians would have to be removed. How do you do that? And how do you get enough of the voting public to see the benefits of dismantling entire departments at federal, state and local levels? Further, what do you do with these hoards of recently-employed, angry former employees who are determined to recreate their jobs and their own personal gravy train?

Angelo Codevilla looks at these issues as only he can. Unfortunately, he is likely preaching to the choir: those who are the problem simply will refuse to see their part in it. Certainly worth the read.
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charlene at Dosido Bookshelf
5.0 out of 5 stars The rise of Trump and the fall of Rubio written in 2010
Reviewed in the United States on May 31, 2016
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The actual text of this book is only 87 pages, so you really DO have time to read it! ...It would be so worth your investment! Why? ... because it will reward you with the sweet gift of CLARITY. Who does not feel disoriented and disheartened at the current state of affairs?! To read Codevilla is to feel restored to reality. Now that is worth a couple hours turning pages!
Codevilla augments his 87 pages with the texts of The Declaration of Independence and The Constitution. We the People must assert the governing framework of these brief documents; because, as Codevilla observes, "it has become conventional wisdom among our Ruling Class that they may transcend the Constitution while pretending allegiance to it" (p.42).
When I read the Trent Lott quote on p.74: "As soon as they get here, we need to co-opt them;" I thought of Junior Senator Marco Rubio's career disaster in joining "the gang of 8" amnesty bill. I hope Rubio will recognize how he was played, and double down on Constitutional principles in a future leadership career. He should read this book!!
It is interesting in this day of the Trump revolution that in this 2010 book, Codevilla predicted a constituent rebellion among Republican voters is inevitable. He warns the Ruling Class that run the Republican party "will have a rude awakening" (p.75) if they continue to govern like Liberal Democrats. Codevilla closes his text with a search through history for how a Constitutional reformation could be successful. If he had a recommendation, I didn't find it! I take his precautions about what would NOT work in the long run. But I wish he had take a few more pages to explore one of the books in his bibliography: "The Roots of American Order" by Russell Kirk (1974). He summarizes: "Kirk argues that American Order is grounded in certain permanent institutions, beliefs, and characteristics of Americans: that TO RESTORE LIBERTY to its rightful place in society, we must STRENGTHEN THE FOUNDATIONS on which it is built: the habits of heart and mind that make (or "made"/csm) America exceptional" (p.142).
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