An Uncivil War: Taking Back Our Democracy in an Age of Trumpian Disinformation and Thunderdome Politics - Greg Sargent Audiobook
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American democracy is facing a crisis as fraught as we’ve seen in decades. Donald Trump’s presidency has raised the specter of authoritarian rule. Extreme polarization and the scorched-earth war between the parties drags on with no end in sight. The recent Kavanaugh confirmation hearings are only the latest example of this, and of the GOP’s continued ability to steamroll the Democrats and their supporters.
At the heart of this dangerous moment is a paradox: It took a figure as uniquely menacing as Trump to rivet the nation’s attention on the fragility of our democracy. Yet the causes of our dysfunction are long-running—they predate Trump, helped facilitate his rise, and, distressingly, will outlast his presidency.
In An Uncivil War, Sargent reveals why we’ve fallen into the ditch—and how to get out of it. Drawing upon years of research and reporting, he exposes the unparalleled sophistication and ambition of GOP tactics, including computer-generated gerrymandering, underhanded voter suppression, and ever-escalating legislative hardball. We are also plagued by other brutal, seemingly intractable problems such as dismal turnout and powerful, built-in temptations to tilt the political playing field with unscrupulous partisan trickery. All of this has been accompanied by foreign-government intervention and an unprecedented level of political disinformation that threatens to undermine the very possibility of shared agreement on facts and poses profound new challenges to the media’s ability to inform the citizenry. Yet the Republican Party is only part of the problem. As Sargent provocatively reveals, Democrats share culpability for helping to accelerate this slide.
But our plight is far from hopeless, and Sargent offers a series of doable prescriptions for saving our democracy, including a shift of focus toward state legislatures, creative voter registration policies, innovative approaches to fairer districting, and a new sense of purpose. The result is a book that could not be more essential as we head toward the elections that most matter.
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This post has 15 comments with rating of 2.3/5
October 18th, 2018
What was it Hardworker used to say, “Trump’s making America great again, one pathetic author at a time.”
Extreme polarization of the parties didn’t begin with Trump’s presidency, that began long ago, but probably was the most felt under the Obama administration. Although it certainly wasn’t reported on to much extent in the media.
For example, Obama’s ramming of Obama care down Congress’ throat. So what if the plan wasn’t viable from the start. So what if that it increased the insurance rates and deductibles of the middle class American by 300-400% while reducing their benefits.
Or how about Obama’s Executive Orders, like mandating that “gender challenged” be allowed to use the bathrooms and locker rooms of their choice otherwise federal funding would be removed from the schools. I’m sorry, but there is something wrong with the concept if you have to violate the right of privacy for 99.7% of the population to please 0.3%.
I’m not a fan of Trump, he’ll poor (read pathetic) Presidential material at best. But books like this are only worth reading if you have limited intelligence and believe everything you read in today’s media.
October 18th, 2018
Take your “democracy” and shove it, all you “liberal” fascists.
October 18th, 2018
LOL at the triggered snowflakes crying over a book
October 18th, 2018
@loony - (appropriately named) we’re not triggered snowflakes as you so put it, we’re fed up to the teeth about the left’s duplicity, lies and hypocrisy.
October 18th, 2018
> American democracy is facing a crisis as fraught as we’ve seen in decades.
America has never been a “democracy” (a.k.a. “mob rule”), but we never hear the word “Republic” from the Left, other than in some negative context.
“The difference between a republic and a democracy is that republics put up more roadblocks between fools and their desires”.
October 18th, 2018
@loonyboyx, don’t worry, a lot of us feel the same way about your inane comments every time a political book is posted that done burn Trump in effigy.
October 18th, 2018
sorry, meant doesn’t not done on the post above.
October 18th, 2018
No wonder you’re “totally disenfranchised”. Enough of a fool to think your post above will change anything. Your “heroic leader” will make up whatever “facts” suit him at the moment and insist they’re true, regardless of anything real, and his followers are gullible enough to swallow his myths. Hint: anything he labels “fake news” is something hitting him too close to home, and he knows his crowd of lemmings will believe him no matter how obvious the truth is. Maybe “totally blind” would be a better nickname…
October 18th, 2018
FlyinBlind oops By, I would love to talk politics with you, but I doubt you be engaging. Like I said to Loonyboyx, you wouldn’t be happy unless Trump was burned in effigy.
Next time, run a better candidate, it shouldn’t be hard, the lowliest slug could/should have beaten Trump in 2016. Too bad the DNC chose someone worse to run that him.
October 18th, 2018
“Taking back our democracy” - that has got to be a joke.
October 18th, 2018
I’ll bring the lighter fluid and matches!!
October 18th, 2018
I don’t understand why people continue to defend Trump. I just don’t get it.
October 18th, 2018
Well said TotallyDisenfranchised. The problems we face go a long way back.
October 18th, 2018
Illusional, it’s not that people are always defending Trump, some like myself, probably don’t like him anymore than you. I (and probably 25% of the Americans that voted for him) probably wouldn’t have voted for him had the DNC run a better candidate. But, as pathetic of a candidate as he was though, she was even worse damaged goods.
However, books like this are fodder for the stupid people of the world. Blaming the “supposed” separation on Trump is asinine, and the issues and problems existed long before his run for President.
October 20th, 2018
Who was it that said “you can’t be civil …” Oh, never mind :-)
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