About the Book: Blind Spot: How Oligarchs Dominate Our Democracies
The wealthy and powerful few have dominated the many throughout most of human
history. This is starkly visible now more than ever today, the gulf between
oligarchs and the average citizen is vastly larger than any gap that existed
during European serfdom or the slave society of Imperial Rome. The strange thing
is, for the first time in history, this domination is accomplished through
democracy. Yet we arent in open revolt against the system. In fact, we keep
voting to prop it up. Why?
In The Blind Spot, political scientist Jeffrey Winters delivers