Audiobook CD,
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2006
English
ISBN: 1415929998
ISBN-13: 9781415929995
OVER THE PAST TWO DECADES AMERICAN ELECTORAL POLITICS HAS BEEN TRANSFORMED BY THE RISE OF A NEWLY ENERGIZED CONSERVATIVE MOVEMENT a movement that is highly organized, extremely well funded, and confidently ambitious in achieving its goals for both the government and the culture. The result has been not only a radical shift in the program and politics of the Republican Party, but a decisive change in the nature of political discourse, which has become disturbingly confrontational, vicious, and hypocritical. Demagoguery is ...
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OVER THE PAST TWO DECADES AMERICAN ELECTORAL POLITICS HAS BEEN TRANSFORMED BY THE RISE OF A NEWLY ENERGIZED CONSERVATIVE MOVEMENT a movement that is highly organized, extremely well funded, and confidently ambitious in achieving its goals for both the government and the culture. The result has been not only a radical shift in the program and politics of the Republican Party, but a decisive change in the nature of political discourse, which has become disturbingly confrontational, vicious, and hypocritical. Demagoguery is increasingly supplanting responsible dialogue, self-righteousness is replacing conscientiousness, and the victim is democracy. How, and why, has this happened? In CONSERVATIVES WITHOUT CONSCIENCE these questions, which concern Democrats and Republicans alike, are taken up by John W. Dean, author of the best-selling "Worse Than Watergate." Once again Dean employs his distinctive knowledge and understanding of Washington politics and process to examine the conservative movement's current inner circle of leaders, its policies, and most notably, its mind-set, which he identifies as fundamentally authoritarian in nature. Polls have demonstrated that a solid majority of Americans are liberals or moderates, individuals who cherish their liberties, who responsibly question their leaders and their policies, and who believe that democracy is a process that requires committed engagement. For them CONSERVATIVES WITHOUT CONSCIENCE will be an alarming record of the abuses of power and a stirring inspiration for safeguarding their rights. For true conservatives it will demand serious reflection as a trenchant explanation of how conservatism has lost its bearings, and a warning of its dangerous ramifications.
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