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Wake Up, You're Liberal!: How We Can Take America Back from the Right

von Ted Rall

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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," peoplewho 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.… (mehr)
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“Americans like big government, and they like big government programs. They hate waste and fraud in their government. It should be, and it is, possible to believe both of these things at once.” (p. 49)

Work to Live: The Guide to Getting a Life – Joe Robinson

“The Achilles’ heel of the GOP is its underlying conservative myth. (I call it a myth because Republicans, who since Reagan have proudly declared themselves the bearers of the conservative standard, no longer even pay lip service to the bedrock principles of true conservatism: limited government, fiscal austerity, isolationism, and respect for individual rights).” (p. 110)

The Sorrows of Empire – Chalmers Johnson

Locked in the Cabinet – Robert Reich

The Long Detour: The History and Future of the American Left – James Weinstein

A Manifesto for a New America (p. 275 – 295)

OUR NEEDS

A full-time job should pay a full-time salary

Working hard entitles you to a worry-free retirement

Everyone has the right to the best possible education

No American should be homeless

No American should be denied medical care

We have the right to collective bargaining

Those who rule us should live like us

OUR FREEDOMS

Americans have a right to own guns

We are all equal

Whether or not to abort a child is a terrible decision to made solely by its mother

Gays and lesbians are our brothers and sisters

Children are human beings

Trashing our freedoms does not protect us from those who wish us harm

The right to seek redress in a court of law shall not be abridged

Government should stay out of the God business

Voting is a privelige

OUR SAFETY

Judges should decide punishment

Murdering murderers debases all of us

Let our people go (prisons)

We are judged by how we treat those whom we condemn

White-collar crime deserves real time

OUR SECURITY

Declaring war is not the decision of one man

A strong military is fundamental to our security

Foreign aid must be revamped or eliminated

If others hate us, it’s our duty to convince them not to

We can stop illegal drugs if we want

Trade sanctions hurt innocent people, not dictators

We respect the international community

The energy crisis never ended

Veterans should want for nothing

OUR FUTURE
Government must balance its budget

We must help people who are suffering but avoid rewarding laziness

Public funds cannot be used for private purposes

The environment is humanity’s #1 priority

Capitalism dies when government permits monopolies

The United States should admit more legal and fewer illegal immigrants

There is no such thing as free trade

Wage attrition must end

Rich people should pay higher taxes than poor people

U.S. corporations should serve American interests ( )
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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," peoplewho 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.

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