Bumper Sticker Liberalism - Peeling Back the Idiocies of the Political Left

Informationen zum Autor Mark Goldblatt is a widely published columnist, essayist, and philosopher. He is the author of two novels, Africa Speaks and Sloth . He teaches religious history and developmental English at Fashion Institute of Technology of the State University of New York. Klappentext Modern American liberalism is no longer a system of beliefs about the role of government, the conduct of international relations, or the nature of personal responsibility. Rather, it has become a series of bumper stickers—actual bumper stickers that signal mental bumper stickers. They don't make sense individually. They don't make sense in concert. But if you peel them away, one by one, from the foreheads of liberals, there's nothing underneath. Clever, pithy, often nasty, and altogether unexamined, the liberal bumper sticker is, in fact, the perfect antidote to critical thought. It's an argumentative marker, a gauntlet thrown down from the sanctuary of the driver's seat. You don't have to defend your ideas with your pedal to the metal. Your bumper sticker says, in effect, "This is how I roll." Insightful and irreverent in just the right way, Bumper Sticker Liberalism takes on, and takes apart, the cozy cognitive knee jerks of actual liberal bumper stickers—on topics ranging from race relations to the nanny state, from global warming to tax policy, from war and peace to Bush Derangement Syndrome. Zusammenfassung In this hilarious, sharp, smart, and savagely on-target analysis of the standard Liberal bromides, political commentator Mark Goldblatt argues that the righteous stands of the modern American Left are nothing more than bumper sticker sayings: catchy phrases with nothing of substance underneath. In Bumper Sticker Liberalism , Goldblatt peels back the idiocies of the political Left—be they global warming deceptions, government controlled health care demands, or irrational pleas for peace—to reveal the emptiness of these ideas. Wonderfully biting, aggressively entertaining, Goldblatt’s Bumper Sticker Liberalism is funny and insulting…in just the Right way.  ...

Product details

• Authors: Mark Goldblatt
• Publisher: Harper Collins Usa
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 10.07.2012
• EAN: 9780062135117
• ISBN: 978-0-06-213511-7
• No. of pages: 208
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 203 mm x 12 mm
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Health economics, Humour, Politics and government, Central / national / federal government policies, Political control and freedoms, Political ideologies and movements, Environmental policy and protocols, Right-of-centre democratic ideologies, Public opinion and polls, POLITICAL SCIENCE: General, POLITICAL SCIENCE: World / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE: Public Policy / Environmental Policy, POLITICAL SCIENCE: International Relations / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE: Propaganda, POLITICAL SCIENCE: Public Policy / Health Care, Political activism / Political engagement, POLITICAL SCIENCE: Public Opinion Polling