great book, one drawback...

This is an excellent book that every American should read. I just wish they had hired a professional to read it. At times it was like listening to a radio talk show host....a little annoying at times. Nevertheless, a great book.

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Pleasurable Factual Density, much needed

With alarms sounding around the clock about everything from tweets to Melania's hurricane attire this book digs deep and dispenses with the alarmist mentality of general anti-Trump writings and interviews. Facts reign supreme and a forward looking gaze mitigate against the dark cloud that many of us see when looking at the immediate effects and implications of a Trump election and presidency.

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Authors are not narrators

This is a great book but having the authors narrate the audiobook was a huge mistake. One author has a slight lisp which isn’t that big of a deal but becomes wearing after a few chapters and another one of the authors constantly sounds as if he is out of breath and struggling to catch his breath. I don’t usually recommend this, but I believe this audiobook could be made 100% better with a re-recording with a professional narrator.

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Excellent material & analysis, but…

The authors have done an incredible job not only in presenting and analyzing how our sociopolitical structures have changed over the past 30-ish years to have brought us to where we are now, but to also propose well thought out methods by which we can begin to not only fix much of what is broken but to also lay the groundwork for tru social & governmental progress.

While I am grateful for the authors efforts to present as up-to-date material as possible, I hope that a “revised” audio format with a professional narrator will be coming in the near future. The authors did a fantastic job with the material, but they’re not professional speakers. I appreciate their efforts, at times it can be difficult to listen to their “performance”.

I highly recommend this book for everyone who is interested/concerned about our government & society - for BOTH “ConservativeS” and “Liberals” who are dissatisfied with where we are as a country.

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Why few authors should record their own books

These guys are no Al Franken. They did extensive work but I recommend reading this, not listening to it. I listen to books while driving. This book is better for drifting off to sleep.

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Insights we all need to hear

I loved this book. It lays out how Trump won and what we must do as a nation to defeat him. I highly recommend it to every one seeking deeper understanding of how we got here and where we go from here. Let’s just pray that we are able to achieve the goals laid out herein before we end up in a nuclear war with North Korea!

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Great insight into what might cure our politics

A thorough acknowledgement of what isn't working today in our political reality and a road map on what can help chart a different course, I found this book to be very insightful and quite reasonable in its assessment of the current climate. Perhaps if some of these thoughts are heeded we, as a country, can truly retain our greatness and further the cause of fairness and democracy throughout the world. However, we must start here at home.

Nothing but ranting about Trump

I'm center-right on Economic issues (don't add to the debt during good times) and moderately left wing on social issues (gay marriage, immigration, marijuana). But even I found this book far-left-wing. Mostly the writers just kept presenting evidence about how bad Trump is for America (all of which is true), and a few minutes of suggested policy changes.

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wrong conclusions, wrong medicine

The Neoliberal center is what brought us Trump. He is a consequence of the democratic party carrying more about money than people, and tough you correctly point that out, you refuse to even contemplate that the center of the Democratic Party is so unpopular that it lost over 1000 seats in the last 8 years and could not even win against Donald Trump. Calling this sexism and racism is a wrong headed, malicious, counter factual, self serving myth. Elizabeth Warren or Tulsi Gabbard both could have won. It was the arrogance of the Democratic Party that lost. It was not even just Hillary Clinton. The backlash against Obama was about Timothy Geithner, drone strikes, mass evictions, bankers getting of scott free while taking fat bonuses from their no restrictions TARP bailout money, violence against water protectors, police violence against black lives while Obama was present and on and on. The DNC limited debates, they locked out independent voters six months before primaries, they closed polling stations and there is even credible evidence of actual criminal election fraud that was perpetrated during the primaries by the DNC and the Clinton campaign. 123,000 voters were purged from the Democratic primary in Brookline alone! And this information all pressures WikiLeaks. The real election fraud happened during the primaries and the voters elected Trump because they were too smart to fall for the better of two evils argument again. They drew a line in the sand and the Democratic Party is ignoring it. If not outright criminal, the primaries were most certainly an arrogant, insulting ethical slap in the face to any aware socially conscious person who was really paying attention. This is not fake news and that line in the sand is still there. Unfortunately for all of us, more than 2/3 of the democratic party is on the wrong side of that line and although there may be some gains in 2018, it is not going to be because of the people want to move to the center. 

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More reasons for revolution

Trump has lied and with the help of his comrades made a mockery of our election process and a joke of our country. He needs to go and the sooner the better. He’s nothing more than a sorry excuse for a man and a human being in general. Just a waste of air.

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