Publisher's Synopsis
The purpose of this book is to provide a rational respond to the enormous right-wing echo chamber that inundates the airways with self-serving misinformation that obstructs the truth regarding progressivism, its initiatives, political ideology, and pragmatic application implemented by the Obama administration and Democrats in Congress. The book endeavors to present Americans with a choice between the overwhelming distortions and misinformation of the toxic right and appeals to consensus, inclusiveness, and socioeconomic justice desired by most Americans. This work consists of numerous analyses, commentaries, and interpretations of the efforts of some Americans to use fear, bias, and money to continue to extract or loot from the public tax dollars to gain untold wealth and power at the expense of the neediest Americans and the middle-class. At the time of the completion of this book, the greediest and wealthiest Americans and their surrogates were close to sealing the Republican nomination for Mitt Romney (R-MA), one of the nation's most prominent vultures capitalist who formerly headed Bain Capital a leading equity buy-out firm. Romney a former moderate governor transformed into an extreme conservative with a tax cut plan that would radically shift the tax burden to the middle-class and poor while making historic cuts to the taxes of the wealthiest Americans. His ultra-conservative fiscal policies and adherence to extreme social conservative values is designed to appeal to the Republican Party's far right-wing base. Unscrupulously, he is willing to say anything to win the highest office. The book examines his candidacy, among others, for the Republican nomination and explains the dangers his and competing candidates and positions exposed to the majority and democracy itself. The problem is not simply his "flip-flops" on issues to win office but the enormous right-wing echo chamber unleashed by the "Citizens United" decision by the ultra-conservative leaning Robert's court. This decision has made the auctioning of political office a means for the wealthiest Americans to takeover the democracy and transforms it into a plutocracy or a fascist state ruled by money. This means that the Republican Party, representing the majority of the nation's social and fiscal conservatives, as well as a third of the wealthiest Americans could deny the majority a government that serves the interest of the neediest and aspiring working-class. This book assesses how the Reagan Revolution, succession of Republican presidents, including "coup d'état" of the election process by George W. Bush, packing the courts with activist conservative judges, legalization of political auctioneering through anonymously-funded Super Paces inundating the electronic airways with misleading and confusing political advertisements designed to obscure their intentions to transfer power, tax and subsidy support to their largest contributors contrary to the public interest. The book explains how this "democracy for sale" has made most American's victims and made the most discriminated socioeconomic group self-destructive. It also provides knowledge and strategies to overcome the overt and subliminal seduction of appeals to fears, biases, envy, etc., used to deny the least among us and immorally extract wealth fare and power from the government on behalf of the super rich. At stake, is the American Dream that hard work, education, and wise decisions will bring Americans prosperity rather than connections, birth and inheritance, "Citizen United" graft to politicians and surrogates, exclusively. One of the many questions raised is whether capitalism will build the nation as a whole or assets of the wealthy few who invest in politicians at the expense of the many and the future of the planet.
