How the Left Can Win Arguments and Influence People : A Tactical Manual for Pragmatic Progressives / John K. Wilson.
Wilson, John K., author.
2000
JC574.2.U6 W57 2001eb
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Title How the Left Can Win Arguments and Influence People : A Tactical Manual for Pragmatic Progressives / John K. Wilson.
Author Wilson, John K., author.
ISBN 9780814784587
Published New York, NY : New York University Press, [2000]
Copyright ©2000
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource
Call Number JC574.2.U6 W57 2001eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 320.51/3/0973
Summary If we were to rely on what the pundits and politicians tell us, we would have to conclude that America is a deeply conservative nation. Americans, we hear constantly, detest government, demand lower taxes and the end of welfare, and favor the death penalty, prayer in school, and an absolute faith in the free market. And yet Americans believe deeply in progressive ideas. In fact, progressivism has long been a powerful force in the American psyche. Consider that a mere generation ago the struggle for environmentally sound policies, for women's rights, and for racial equality were fringe movements. Today, open opposition to these core ideals would be political suicide. Drawing on this wellspring of American progressivist tradition, John K. Wilson has penned an informal handbook for the pragmatic progressive. Wilson insists that the left must become more savvy in its rhetoric and stop preaching only to the converted. Progressives need to attack the tangible realities of the corporate welfare state, while explicitly acknowledging that "socialism is," as Wilson writes, "deader than Lenin." Rather than attacking a "right-wing conspiracy," Wilson argues that the left needs one, too. Tracing how well-funded conservative pressure groups have wielded their influence and transformed the national agenda, Wilson outlines a similar approach for the left. Along the way, he exposes the faultlines of our poll- and money-driven form of politics, explodes the myth of "the liberal media," and demands that the left explicitly change its image. Irreverent, practical, and urgently argued, How The Left Can Win Arguments and Influence People charts a way to translate progressive ideals into reality and reassert the core principles of the American left on the national stage.
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Series Critical America ; 58
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Frontmatter
CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Introduction: The Progressive Majority: How the Left Got Left Behind
Chapter 1 THE DEATH OF SOCIALISM
Chapter 2 THE VAST RIGHT-WING CONSPIRACY (AND WHY THE LEFT-WING NEEDS ONE, TOO)
Chapter 4 POLLS The Circle of Lies
Chapter 5 THE POLITICS OF MONEY Campaign Financing and One Dollar, One Vote
Chapter 6 THE MYTH OF THE LIBERAL MEDIA How the Press Attacks Progressives
Chapter 7 THE GLOBALIZATION WARS How the Left Won (and Lost) the "Battle in Seattle"
Chapter 8 PRAGMATIC PROGRESSIVES
Chapter 9 TALKING TAX CUTS Lowering Taxes on the Poor
Chapter 10 MAKING CRIME A PROGRESSIVE ISSUE
Chapter 11 WINNING THE CULTURE WARS
Chapter 12 EQUALITY FOR EVERY CHILD Reforming Education
Chapter 13 FIGHTING THE UNION LABEL Labor on the Left
Chapter 14 THE RACE FOR JUSTICE Defending Affirmative Action
Chapter 15 UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE
Chapter 16 GREENER POLITICS Progressives and the Environment
Chapter 17 WHY WE NEED WELFARE AND HOW TO CHANGE IT
Chapter 18 ENDING CORPORATE WELFARE AS WE KNOW IT
Chapter 19 THE DEFENSE INDUSTRY How to Protect America by Cutting the Military
Chapter 20 SAVING SOCIAL SECURITY
Chapter 21 THE FUTURE OF PROGRESSIVES Generation Left
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