This page contains the footnotes from the ebook and paperback versions of “Think Right or Wrong, Not Left or Right: A 21st Century Citizen Guide (2nd Expanded Edition)”
Chapter 1 – A Brief History of Left and Right
1 Wikipedia: Left-right political spectrum
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left%E2%80%93right_political_spectrum)
Chapter 4 – Statism: Collectivist Social Systems
2 Wikipedia: Racism in The Soviet Union
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism_in_the_Soviet_Union)
3 Rudolf Rummel: 20th Century Democide
(https://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/20TH.HTM)
4 Wikipedia: Conservatism
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservatism)
5 Wikipedia: Democratic socialism
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_socialism)
Chapter 5: Capitalism
6 U.S. Vehicle Technology Office: Fact # 617, U.S. Vehicles per Thousand People, 1900-2008
(https://www.energy.gov/eere/vehicles/fact-617-april-5-2010-changes-vehicles-capita-around-world)
7 Robert A. Peterson: Education in Colonial America
(https://fee.org/articles/education-in-colonial-america/)
8 Lawrence W. Reed: The Myth that Americans Were Poorly Educated before Mass Government Schooling
9 John Greenwood/Steve H. Hanke: The Monetary Bathtub is Overflowing
10 HardmoneyJim: Pandemic QE and its aftermath
(https://jim3c5.substack.com/p/no-12-pandemic-qe-and-its-aftermath?s=r)
11 See “Rand, Ayn. The Virtue of Selfishness (p. 125). Penguin Publishing Group. Kindle Edition” for a more detailed discussion of government financing in a free society.
12 Onkar Ghate: A Pro Freedom Approach To Infectious Disease
(https://newideal.aynrand.org/pandemic-response/)
13 Andrew McAfee: More from Less: The surprising story of how we learned to prosper using fewer resources – and what happens next
(https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07MJ7N61S/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1)
14 U.S. Energy Information Administration: Table 8.1 Nuclear Energy Overview
(https://www.eia.gov/totalenergy/data/monthly/pdf/sec8_3.pdf)
15 Statista: Share of nuclear power in total domestic electricity generation in 2020, by select country
16 Wikipedia: Prejudice
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prejudice)
Chapter 6 – Laying The Groundwork
17 Wikipedia: Same-sex marriage in the United States
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Same-sex_marriage_in_the_United_States)
18 Wikipedia: Public opinion of same-sex marriage in the United States
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_opinion_of_same-sex_marriage_in_the_United_States)
19 World Bank: GDP per capita growth (annual %) – United States
(https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.KD.ZG?locations=US)
20 USGovernmentSpending.com: Federal Debt
(https://usgovernmentspending.com/debt_deficit_history)
21 USGovernmentSpending.com: State and Local Debt
(https://usgovernmentspending.com/compare_state_spending_H0p)
Chapter 7 – From Here To There: Health Insurance and Health Care
22 Wikipedia: Medicaid
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicaid)
Chapter 8 – From Here To There: Retirement
23 Wikipedia: History of Social Security in the United States
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Social_Security_in_the_United_States)
Chapter 9 – From Here To There: Education
24 Downsizing the Federal Government: Department of Education
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