Einzelstück 34 - The Progressive's Handbook: Get the Facts and Make a Difference Now (Volume 1)

"The reality-based community [believes] that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality … That's not how the world works anymore. We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality." - an aide to George W. Bush, October 2004. It's not easy these days for "reality-based" Americans. Unemployment is up, living wages are down, 37 Million of us struggle with poverty and over 45 million languish without health insurance. Thousands of service members and countless civilians have died in pointless quagmires in Afghanistan and Iraq, while the administration's $368 billion so-called war on terror ravages America's reputation and threatens national security. Yet Bush tells us to "stay the course". Only fools stay the course when it's heading overa cliff, and that's why I wrote The Progressive's Handbook: Get the Facts and Make a Difference Now. [...] (Vorwort)