Listen, Liberal: Or, What Ever Happened to the Party of the People? - Thomas Frank Audiobook
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Centrism
Elites
Elitism
Inequality
Liberalism
Neoliberalism
Populism
Working-class
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From the best-selling author of What’s the Matter with Kansas, a scathing look at the standard-bearers of liberal politics - a book that asks: What’s the matter with Democrats?
It is a widespread belief among liberals that if only Democrats can continue to dominate national elections, if only those awful Republicans are beaten into submission, the country will be on the right course. But this is to fundamentally misunderstand the modern Democratic Party. Drawing on years of research and first-hand reporting, Frank points out that the Democrats have done little to advance traditional liberal goals: expanding opportunity, fighting for social justice, and ensuring that workers get a fair deal. Indeed, they have scarcely dented the free-market consensus at all. This is not for lack of opportunity: Democrats have occupied the White House for 16 of the last 24 years, and yet the decline of the middle class has only accelerated. Wall Street gets its bailouts, wages keep falling, and the free-trade deals keep coming.
With his trademark sardonic wit and lacerating logic, Frank lays bare the essence of the Democratic Party’s philosophy and how it has changed over the years. A form of corporate and cultural elitism has largely eclipsed the party’s old working-class commitment, he finds. For certain favored groups, this has meant prosperity. But for the nation as a whole, it is a one-way ticket into the abyss of inequality. In this critical election year, Frank recalls the Democrats to their historic goals - the only way to reverse the ever-deepening rift between the rich and the poor in America.
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This post has 11 comments with rating of 5/5
July 15th, 2020
Joe Biden has admitted that the Democrats abandoned so-called “ordinary” people, decades ago.
I think that their rural & working class support was jettisoned in favour of the affluent urban vote. Their globalisation policies attracted & benefited this demographic.
July 15th, 2020
Ya got that right, Caesar!
July 15th, 2020
Such good uploads, thank you, daenigma100.
July 15th, 2020
Don’t forget the blue collar workers who both parties abandoned also. They sent manufacturing jobs elsewhere; China, south Asia, Southeast Asia, etc.
July 15th, 2020
Democrats + Socialism + Nazis=The future of America if we keep voting in Democrats who hate this country and all it stands for.
And some people are thinking of voting for Lying, Hiding, Biden!!!!??
July 16th, 2020
I like Trumptards, they’re silly.
July 16th, 2020
…how dare u, illodiini, you confounded rotter! (Pardon my unpardonable articulation of expression, I know you mean well and are motivated by only the loftiest condescension. It’s just that I’ve been under the influence of a considerable aggregate of gravity in the latter recency)
July 16th, 2020
Fine. I don’t like Trumptards. Happy?
July 16th, 2020
I like my messages shaken, not stirred (other, less discerning, chaps are content to have them mixed).
July 21st, 2020
I’m an old hippie liberal.
I call us brothers and sisters not racists and Nazis.
I tell children the sky is not falling but rather the sky is the limit.
I respect the powers of Mother Nature and I don’t issue CO2 death threats to children.
I fight to never return to the old establishment as liberals strive to do today.
I fight against hate speech laws because if we had them we wouldn’t have been able to say FREE THE SLAVES.
July 7th, 2024
Thank you!
Please consider sharing What’s The Matter With Kansas? Another fantastic book by Thomas Frank :)
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