Publisher's Synopsis
After the 2016 presidential election, millions of Americans asked the same question:
How did we get to the point as a nation that we nominated these two completely unsuitable candidates for president?
The author of this book - Tom Mitsoff, who has decades of leadership experience in mass media companies - asked the same question. Utilizing a combination of his personal experiences and research, the author charts two courses:
- How we as a nation reached this point
- What we as a nation can do to reverse this trend, before it's too late
You'll read:
- How Harry S. Truman's upset victory over Thomas Dewey in 1948 had many parallels to the Donald Trump surprise win over Hillary Clinton
- How the mass media's approach to news coverage has changed over the past century, and most importantly, the reasons why
- How Roger Ailes helped to shape the way our presidential campaigns are run today, long before he took control of Fox News
- How a perfect storm of business, societal and political changes paved the way for the outbreak of "fake news" during the 2016 campaign
- Why "post-truth" became Oxford Dictionaries' word of the year for 2016
- Why many voters no longer care whether candidates are telling the truth or not, and how the candidates cater to those specific bases
- The profile of a candidate who must step forward to help stop "post-truth politics" in America, and why the candidate's primary platform plank MUST BE to always tell the truth to the American people
- The obstacles facing this candidate, along with a plan to give this candidate a legitimate chance
- The absolute necessity for involvement in the electoral process by the more than 100 million Americans who consider themselves political independents, but many who did not vote in 2016 out of apparent disgust or apathy
If you are among the millions of Americans who are disgusted with our presidential nomination and election process, but have no idea what to do about it, "Fixing Post-Truth Politics" will tell you how we got here, and what steps a concerned populace can take. Forty percent of Americans self-identify as being independent of either the Democrat or Republican party. But they don't vote that way.
This book describes how to find the candidate who will give voters who have passed the point of exasperation with the Democratic and Republican party political machines someone who they can feel good about voting for. And, it charts the path necessary to have a chance for victory in each of our 50 states.
Most importantly, this book presents what has happened to our country in ways not many people have realized. It is meant as an eye-opening instigator of thought and discussion to expand on the plan outlined within. Visit us at http: //fixposttruthpolitics.com to join the discussion.
This book is written for the more than 100 million United States citizens who do not currently have a voice in national politics. These are the people in the political "middle," who, in effect, have no representation in the federal government. You will learn in this book that there are more "middle-grounders" than there are Democrats or Republicans in the U.S., but the "middle" has nobody standing up for it.
This book is written for the people in the middle who have an open mind and don't automatically subscribe and tie themselves to a position or statement just because one of the leaders of the Democratic or Republican parties says it.
You will read in this book how technological and cultural changes over the past half-century have led us to a point in our country's history where the truthfulness of presidential candidates' statements is not important to a substantial percentage of the electorate.
