Naomi Wolf

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	To oppose or discuss a nomination, please go to CZ:Proposed for deletion and follow the instructions. For the monthly nomination lists, see Category:Articles for deletion. Image:Naomi Wolf at the Brooklyn Book Festival.jpg|thumb|left|alt=Picture of a woman with blue eyes and brown hair with large earrings.|Activism|Activist for democracy Naomi Wolf described parallels between twenty-first century events in the United States of America and pre-fascist Germany. Naomi Wolf (1962-) is an American progressive, also described as libertarianism|libertarian, author who warned of serious danger to America's democracy from the federal government in the aftermath of the 9/11 attack attacks. She has written several books and is a contributor to the Huffington Post. Public knowledge Wolf wondered how young persons could be accurately called citizens and complained that young people don't understand capital-D "Democracy". She wrote in 2007: This lack of understanding about how democracy works is disturbing enough. But at a time when our system of government is under assault from an administration that ignores tradition|traditional checks and balances, engages in illegal wiretapping and writes secret laws on torture, it means that we're facing an unprecedented crisis. As the Founders knew, if citizens are ignorant of or complacent about the proper workings of a republic "of laws not of men," then any leader of any party -- or any tyrannical United States Congress|Congress or even a tyrannical majority -- can abuse the power they hold. But at this moment of threat to the system the Framers set in place, a third of young Americans don't really understand what they were up to.}} The End of America Her book The End of America described parallels between the United States of America and pre-World War II Germany including surveillance of citizens, extrajudicial detention, paramilitary forces, torture, and wondered whether America faced the prospect of fascism. She said the National Counterterrorism Center had the names of roughly 775,000 "terror suspects" in February 2008. Conservative writer Michael C. Moynihan called the book "monumentally stupid", termed Wolf "America's most successful anti-fascist," and continues criticism of the Obama Administration as well as the George W. Bush Administration.He said she has "kind words" for libertarianism|libertarians in the Tea Party Movement for the libertarian participants in the Tea Party movement. He says she accuses President Obama of "being like Hitler" but does it very differently than Glenn Beck. When she says that "Obama has done things like Hitler did," she does it with an academic degree. Every time I use those analogies, I am doing it with a concrete footnoted historical context. When people like Glenn Beck throw around the word Nazi without taking that kind of care, they are engaging in demagoguery. He said that when she attended a Ron Paul rally, she met met "a lot of 'ordinary' people, as in not privileged" and advises her fellow leftists to communicate with limited government plebs "by using language that anyone can understand even if you majored in semiotics at Yale." Civil rights and government power Wolf wrote of a plan to subvert constitutional protections, naming John Yoo. Sexual and gender issues See also: Pornography She wrote that Andrea Dworkin was right to warn about pornography being a danger, but incorrect about the outcome: "But the effect is not making men into raving beasts. On the contrary: The onslaught of porn is responsible for deadening male libido in relation to real women, and leading men to see fewer and fewer women as “porn-worthy." Education Undergraduate at Yale University New College, Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar. References