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 .p100 Arthur Brooks 2019 [[ https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/02/opinion/sunday/political-polarization.html | Our Culture of Contempt ]]
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 .p101 Arthur Brooks 2019 [[ https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/02/opinion/sunday/political-polarization.html | Our Culture of Contempt ]]
 .p102 Nichols realizes he too feels contempt ... for liberals
 .p109 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dying_of_Whiteness | Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland ]]
 .p110 Laid off Trump voter "He's not hurting the people he needs to be hurting"
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 .p137 anti-globalization: More jobs or affordable cars?
 .p138 unequal distribution of empathy
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 .p140 Liberal democracy hasn't been delivering (replacements for jobs in heavy industry)
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Our Own Worst Enemy

The Assault from Within on Modern Democracy


  • ix 2013 essay 2017 book "The Death Of Expertise" 303.4833 Nichols 2017 Hills-Brook Sherwood Tigard Tualatin


  • 027 ch1 A Hunger for Apocalypse: The Perils of Peace and Plenty

  • 050 explosion of bandwidth -> better standard of living, also democratic decline

  • 051 internet "social media" breeds bad ideas, encourages attacks online, displaces real human contact
  • 053 2015 average consumer 15hrs per day on internet
  • 055 NYU Neil Postman agrees with Huxley, "amusing ourselves to death"


  • p057 ch2 The Nicest People You'll Ever Dislike: When Good Neighbors are Bad Citizens

  • p059 idiot from Greek word idion pertaining to self

  • p070 Silvio Berlusconi

  • p072 poll: half of Americans believed politicians should decide rather than the American people
  • p072 studied voters: whether process is democratic is not particularly important
  • p073 LA voter watched "Apprentice", Trump would be more exciting than "boring" Clinton
  • p074 picture of Clintons at 2005 Trump Wedding

  • p075 diverse opinions mistaken for moderate opinions
  • p077 OOT voter: Obama Obama Trump
  • p080 2019 Rauch hardening of incoherent ideological difference

  • p083 Trump downplayed COVID because voters preferred irresponsibility
  • p085 Voters revert to village mentality, more comfortable, inspired by celebrity
  • p086 John Adams: private virtue -> public virtue -> foundation of republics



  • p112 ch4 System Failure? Human Suffering and the Case against Liberal Democracy

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  • p140 Liberal democracy hasn't been delivering (replacements for jobs in heavy industry)
  • p140 populism "style and swagger", produces unfit leaders
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  • p167 ch5 Hello, I Hate You: How Hyper-Connection Is Destroying Democracy

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  • p191 Conclusion: Is There a Road Back?"

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