"How many lies are too many? How much bullshit is the human organism designed to tolerate before it starts to malfunction? Is there a breaking point?
Mainstream American society has never been designed to confront difficult or dangerous truths."
pickThomas Frank discusses how the Democratic Party, which historically fought for workers‘ rights since the era of FDR, has gradually abandoned its base and entered into an unholy matrimony with plutocrats and the professional class. Reading this book makes it clear that no major political party in America is fighting for regular middle-class Americans. Everyone is left to fend for themselves, as the government isn‘t working for the average Joe.
I started this yesterday as my commute audiobook, and it turns out to be almost perfectly sized for it. I‘m only in the car for about 20 minutes at a time, which is about the length of most of the essays so far. I already highly recommend this one, too.
#DannyBoy for tax. He‘s not impressed with Mom working and gone for several hours every evening, so we get extra morning snuggles whenever we can.
Feeling proud of myself 🤓 Revisited this after 5 years. (It was one of the 1st books I ever logged here!) My first go-around was extremely challenging & most of Davis‘s analysis went over my head. But since then I have learned a lot about Marxism & the labor movement, & I‘m happy to report that I was able to follow the argument this time around! Can confirm it is a work of true genius 🤯
Released during George W Bush‘s second term it is just as relevant today, providing insight and understanding to the road paved for where Trump now stands. The lessons regarding framing issues and how to change course are strong and worthy, but somehow have been missed by the mainstream left. It‘s a good read, I recommend highly, but damn it‘s sad reading this now, little of this implemented in the decades since. Dems, read it!
I‘m posting one book a day from my massive collection. No description, no reason for why I want to read it.
#ABookADay2025
I really like Bob Woodward‘s style of writing.
He couldn‘t have said it better: “The failure to organize. The lack of discipline. The undermining or the attempted undermining of so many American institutions. The unwillingness to acknowledge error. When his performance as president is taken in its entirety, I can only reach one conclusion: Trump is the wrong man for the job.”
