Sociometrics: Recommended Reading

It's intoxicating to be told it's okay to embrace your weaknesses and not bother with building yourself, on your own, with trust that you were given the necessary skills by some abstract and complex process.  Republican Gomorrah explores this as it's applied to a political process. The Republican Party was about independent thinking and pulling yourself up by your own bootstraps and small government. It almost seems as if that were a fairy tale considering what has been occurring in politics that last few decades.  Fern Phan

About the book:

Republican Gomorrah is an intimate portrayal of a political,
social, and religious movement defined by an “escape from freedom.” As Erich Fromm explained, those who join the ranks of an authoritarian cause to resolve inner turmoil and self-doubt are always its most fervent, rigidly ideological, and loyal members. They are... often its most politically influential members as well. President Eisenhower described the “mental stress and burden” that animates such movements. His admonition to beware the danger posed to democracy by those who
seek “freedom from the necessity of informing themselves and making up
their own minds concerning these tremendous complex and difficult
questions” should be as memorable in history as his caution about the
“military-industrial complex” in his farewell address. Republican Gamorrah