'A handbook for spirited progressives'
Finished Su 6/17/18
This is one of my trade paperbacks that was 'bathroom reading' for many, many weeks.
Although the book was released in 1996 (I bought it at the main branch on Sunday in October in 1998) this book is still essential reading during The Trump Era.
"One of the lessons Carville gives is one from his grandmother about being a '5/65 Democrat'. What that means is that when you're between the ages of 5 and 65, you should either be in training for a job, or actually in one". Carville has huge respect for 'work', and this is the very heart of his philosophy.
I think the this should be the government's primary concern. This could sound the death knell on poverty and America's exploding prison population.
The Republican Party, then and now, is a union for the rich and the powerful, and The Democrats are for the rest of us.
A slender volume, but the points are nearly indisputable.
At a very basic level, Republicans hatred of government starts with a distrust and a loathing of diversity and community. Republicans do not like or trust anyone who does not think and act just like they do.
I don't usually enter 'the bathroom books' into the blog, but this one was special. I think that Carville could re-release this book today and not need to change a thing. Although he might consider adding more incidents that bolster his points because 'stuck inside of Trump Era', they're certainly piling up.
A 'Christian Republican' is quite possibly the quintessential oxymoron.
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