As I mentioned last

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As I mentioned last week, this week at TPMCafe Book Club author Kevin Phillips is joining us to discuss his new book American Theocracy. Phillips just got the ball rolling with his first post discussing how and why he wrote the book.

His first paragraph reads …

My underlying thesis in American Theocracy is that these are the three major perils of the United States in the early 21st century. First, radical religion – this encompasses everything from the Pat Robertson-Jerry Falwell types to the attacks on medicine and science and the Left Behind books with their End Times and Armageddon scenarios. Second, oil dependence – oil was essential to 20th century U.S. hegemony, and its growing scarcity and cost could play havoc. And third, debt is becoming a national weakness – indeed, the “borrowing” industry in the U.S. has grown so rapidly that finance has displaced manufacturing as the leading U.S. sector.

Read the rest here.

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