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Summary: Excellent!
Review: Ok - I haven't read it, but I just finished "Banana Republicans". For anyone who really wants to know how the right took over in the US I highly recommend this book. The "liberal bias" that is supposedly in the media is not really bias, because most people ARE liberal, whether the conservatives want to admit it or not. Massive corporations have brainwashed the public through think tanks that conservatism is somehow good for America. Don't let the radical religious right and corporations tell you what's good for the country.
Liberalism is the true heart of America. CARING about your fellow man. Working for equality in the workplace, a clean environment, etc. How can anyone discount how beautiful these ideas are? American right wing politics have been an absolute disaster, and I can't wait for the PEOPLE to take back their country. This is the first time the republicans have controlled the house, senate, supreme court, and presidency since 1935. The reason? THEY DON'T REPRESENT THE PEOPLE!!!!
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Summary: A nice intro to the workings of the GOP's machine
Review: The Republican Propaganda Machine is running at full power these days and it seems like nothing can stop it.Except the truth, that is. Joe Conason, columnist with Salon, has decided to share those truths with us and he does a very nice job shattering many of the myths (talking points) that the GOP repeats over and over. like... - Liberals are soft on foreign affairs
- Liberals hate America and want to help it's enemies
- Liberals "tax and spend"
- Liberals are destroying our values and morals Through many examples throughout U.S. history, Conason shows that Liberals are none of the above and also shows that many Conservatives have had a hard time "walking the walk". - Gingrich divorcing his wife while she was in the hospital with cancer
- Bush/Cheney finding their own ways to "dodge" the draft
- Ann Coulter, who likes to talk about "morals" and "values" but runs around in nightclubs, talks about frequently having pre-marital sex, and dating the heir to the "Penthouse" magazine company.
- The Republicans poor job of running the economy for the past few decades Highly Recommended!
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Summary: Hard-Hitting Facts about America's Poison
Review: This book is the bible of American truth: The GOP are running this country into the ground.
Conason makes a strong case that most of the beliefs of the GOP are based on deception and lies. The strong evidence he offers, presented in a well thought out fashion, invites those who disagree to make a counter case based on something other than accusing him of being a liberal.
Conason points to several areas that the GOP offers often repeated sound bites that bare little resemblance to reality. His case about the GOP claiming to be a free market party is a case in point. Rather than letting the market rule as Barry Goldwater might have advocated, Conason offers case after case of Republicans choosing winners and losers, showering tax dollar largess on favored companies. Not surprisingly, these are more often than not companies that donate generously to the GOP.
The most powerful case in this book regards the Republicans growing and dangerous inclination to accuse any who disagree with them for being unpatriotic, or as in the case of a certain GOP mouth piece, of being traitors. This dangerous tendency towards demonization indicates a frightening willingness to damage democratic institutions in order to hold power. Not in this book but elsewhere Conason put it well when he said that the GOP increasingly seems to be a party not interested in governing, but in ruling.
Real Americans would do well to read and take note before casting their ballot in November.
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