This week’s non-fiction book of the week is No Is Not Enough: Resisting the New Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need, by Naomi Klein. Lesson #1:According to Klein, “shock” politics refers to “the quite brutal tactic of systematically using the public’s disorientation following a collective shock – wars, coups, terrorist attacks, market crashes, or natural disasters – to push through radical pro-corporate measures.”Though the big fear is that things like the suspension of civil liberties or the seizure of enhanced powers will be made permanent, the more mundane but still nefarious problem is that politicians will often take advantage of emergency legislation following a catastrophe for their own pork-barrel politicking. Tomorrow’s lesson: How Trump fits in.

Source: National Post June 26, 2017 20:53 UTC