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Lädt ... Why We're Polarizedvon Ezra Klein
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. Unbelievable book and what a great young writer of our time of national politics. ( ) Ezra Klein’s Why We’re Polarized is a rather revealing book. It focused on identity in politics and how this has caused Americans to become polarized. An identity covers some notable aspects in people’s lives like religion, race, geography, and psychology. These characteristics have intertwined and shaped, how Democrats and Republicans voted along party lines. The end game has resulted into what the American political system has become. Klein stated that such polarization wasn’t the case in the nation’s earlier history, He explained that there were both liberal and conservative senators in both parties. Presently, he wrote the Democratic party was predominantly liberal, while the Republican party was conservative. This divide has only deepened with the arrival of Donald Trump. He promoted the interests of White Supremacists, and propagated falsehoods. Klein viewed his ascendancy as a backlash to the years of Barack Obama’s presidency. Although he argued, Trump’s stance was meant to shore up a predominantly White base, against the diversity that has taken hold in American society. That was why Trump was seen as antagonistic to Black interests, and made controversial remarks against peaceful demonstrations. Klein had thoughts on many aspects of the American political system. He criticized the way Mitch McConnell maneuvered the senate to select judges that upended the nature of the Supreme Court. As a result, the court became predominantly conservative that was bad for the nation instead of being balanced. Klein would do away with the filibuster in the senate that often causes gridlock. He felt that proportional representation would be a better system to elect a president and members of Congress. keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
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HTML:ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2022 One of Bill Gates's "5 books to read this summer," this New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller shows us that America's political system isn't broken. The truth is scarier: it's working exactly as designed. In this "superbly researched" (The Washington Post) and timely book, journalist Ezra Klein reveals how that system is polarizing us??and how we are polarizing it??with disastrous results. "The American political system??which includes everyone from voters to journalists to the president??is full of rational actors making rational decisions given the incentives they face," writes political analyst Ezra Klein. "We are a collection of functional parts whose efforts combine into a dysfunctional whole." "A thoughtful, clear and persuasive analysis" (The New York Times Book Review), Why We're Polarized reveals the structural and psychological forces behind America's descent into division and dysfunction. Neither a polemic nor a lament, this book offers a clear framework for understanding everything from Trump's rise to the Democratic Party's leftward shift to the politicization of everyday culture. America is polarized, first and foremost, by identity. Everyone engaged in American politics is engaged, at some level, in identity politics. Over the past fifty years in America, our partisan identities have merged with our racial, religious, geographic, ideological, and cultural identities. These merged identities have attained a weight that is breaking much in our politics and tearing at the bonds that hold this country together. Klein shows how and why American politics polarized around identity in the 20th century, and what that polarization did to the way we see the world and one another. And he traces the feedback loops between polarized political identities and polarized political institutions that are driving our system toward crisis. "Well worth reading" (New York magazine), this is an "eye-opening" (O, The Oprah Magazine) book that will change how you look at politics??and perha Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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