8 Trickle-down's rule of law: power to the propertied and powerful : Introduction to the rule of law - The privilege accompanying property ownership - Institutionalization of the political process as a 'free market' - rigged in favor of the propertied - The Bush v. 7 A narrative of trickle-down failure: the productivity/wage disconnect : The productivity/wage disconnect - Failure to share the revenues from productivity growth yields massive growth in inequality - Models illustrating the effects of trickle-down - Austerity causes slow growth, which increases deficits - A summary narrative of trickle-down failure - Notes. 6 Trick-down conservatism versus public opinion : The view from inside the bubble: stay with trickle-down course - A call for a conservatism that is fact based, not faith based. 5 Trickle-down conservatism versus the classical liberalism it claims for inspiration : Liberal Democracy's trickle-up vision versus the illiberal vision of trickle-down - How trickle-down conservatism undermines liberal democracy - The parallel evolutions (for the worse) of Hayek and conservatism - Notes. 4 Trickle-down conservatism versus the facts : Facts confronting the delusions supporting the trickle-down delusion - How the facts of trickle-down's failure were hidden in economic theory - Notes.

The trickle-down delusions : 3 Trickle-down: enabling realization of the dream to make the 'holy rollers lie down with the high rollers' - The shared authoritarian hierarchical vision of trickle-down conservatism's elements - Trickle-down conservatism mirrors Sixties liberalism - Notes. 2 Democrats must elaborate on and sustain an anti-trickle-down narrative to defeat Republicans : Barak Obama versus trickle-down - The liberal preference to psychoanalyze - The liberal inability to communicate with Middle America. The delusional trickle-down conservative Republican virtual reality bubble and liberal refusal to confront it : 1 The delusional trickle-down conservative Republican virtual reality bubble and the 2012, 2014, and 2016 elections and beyond : The Romney-Ryan campaign: 'we built it' on deception - Conservatism's moral universe of 'makers' versus 'takers' - Notes. Introduction : Triumph of the delusion that to help the middle class and poor policies must help the rich - Rebirth of the delusion that to help the middle class and poor policies must help the rich - Ideology and terminology - The metric and the argument - Notes. Preface: a call to action - Notes - Acknowledgments. Includes bibliographical references and index The trickle-down delusion : how Republican upward redistribution of economic and political power undermines our economy, democracy, institutions, and health-and a liberal response

The Trickle-Down Delusion by John Seip