| Wake Up, You're Liberal!: How We Can Take America Back from the Right Contributor(s): Rall, Ted (Author) |
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ISBN: 1932360220 ISBN-13: 9781932360226 Publisher: Soft Skull OUR PRICE: $14.36 Product Type: Paperback Published: May 2004 Annotation: Declaring that there hasn't been a "real" Democrat in the White House since Lyndon Johnson, Rall decries "the hijacking of the government by right-wingers and the seeming powerlessness of the left to stop them." |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - 21st Century |
| Dewey: 320.510 |
| LCCN: 2004003512 |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.24" W x 9.08" (1.01 lbs) 315 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 21st Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Americans are not living as well as the citizens of the world's wealthiest and most powerful nation should. Part of the reason: their government has been hijacked by the right third of the political spectrum. Why? After all, the American left -- Democrats, Greens and political movements from environmentalism and animal rights to those who oppose unfettered free trade -- should by all rights enjoy majority, mainstream status. Eighty percent of Americans are regular people, people who make less than $100,000 a year. A plurality of registered voters are Democrats. Despite this seemingly intrinsic advantage, there hasn't been a real Democrat in the White House since Lyndon Johnson. But Democrats, as Will Rogers famously observed, don't belong to an organized political party--right-wingers from Genghis Khan to Adolf Hitler have always been better at getting things done. The GOP has talk radio, Fox News and Clear Channel Communications on its side. The obvious solution to the current crisis of power is the reconstitution of a strong, viable American left centered around an effective Democratic Party.This book is dedicated to the prospect that the left will, and must, rise again. |