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A former conservative loves this book

Revisado: 10-07-20

For the past decade, indeed before, we have watched the conservative Republican party turn into nothing but a bunch of assholes and trolls. I say this as a former conservative.

This book clearly lays out exactly the manners in which the republican party has turned into nothing but a bunch of trolls. Instead of a cogent argument or a defense of conservative values, all we get from these crybabies are “fake news“ to dismiss empirical facts.

The fact that the right wing are funded by mega billionaires who prop up their propaganda networks that spew endless demonization of the left is clearly demonstrated and laid out in this book. A deeper question we should ask might be “why are the billionaires doing this?“ The answer should be obvious, so long as they can keep the “peasants“ fighting amongst them selves, we will not notice or be able to stop them from robbing us.

That being said, the infuriating and childish manner in which the Republican Party behaves itself combined with its anti-democratic tendencies, suppressing votes, gerrymandering and abusing their minority party technical rule over the rest of us is more understandable once you listen to this book.

If you were on the left and tired of being kicked around by conservatives, this book should help you to gain your footing and be able to push back. All sides are not equal in this struggle, one side The Republicans,embrace and glorify fascism, bullying, cruelty and dishonesty. The other side tries to hold to the truth and the ideals that are necessary for free and functioning democracy.

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Essential for understanding fascism today

Revisado: 07-31-20

The term fascism is widely bandied about today but it is rarely understood, serving only as a pejorative or insult and not the necessarily accurate description it should rightly be.

This book is clearly laid out with the intent of educating and serving as a reference for those trying to grapple with the clearly dangerous rhetoric and practices of the American right wing today. Even conservatives in the formerly Republican party have woken up to the fact that their party was hijacked by fascists which is, historically, part of the fascist strategy to gain power.

If you are searching for clarity and an intellectual approach to understanding the current demagoguery and incitement to at times armed conflict by the right, this book should help you understand.

Hopefully we, through being informed, can stop fascism before it's attendant nationalism plunges us into a widening conflict that could include war.

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