Art Rude

Political Cocaine: How America Got Hooked on the Two Party System and How to Intervene Volume 1

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Produktbeschreibung

American consumers demand choice. The assortment of products in American stores is beyond belief to anyone from the Third World. So why are only two choices for anything political acceptable to Americans?It seems totally illogical. It reminds me of the illogical change in behavior of an addict. These are people who are normal in seemingly every way yet give up everything and everyone in their lives for a drug which is a short-term high, and self-destructive. How can that be? Research has convinced me it's more than coincidence. In terms of political opinion, it's Political Cocaine.How did political parties take over the American form of government anyway? There is no provision for them in the Constitution, yet today they control basically all phases of the process of governing in the United States. There must be something that authorized their power. I looked for years and could find nothing. In fact, that is how they grew into their power. In spite of the fact that nothing authorizes them, there is also nothing that makes political parties illegal, another parallel to cocaine historically. Cocaine was perfectly legal in the United States until the early part of the 20th century. Coca-Cola started off as "cocaine-a-cola" until cocaine was made illegal in 1914!Although nothing authorized political parties in the American form of government, the fact that they were not prohibited allowed them to develop. Ironically, in light of the power they have today, the first party, the Democratic-Republican Party, was organized primarily to oppose the political power that was being assembled by the Federalists. As a result, the Democratic-Republicans are also known as the Anti-Federalists. Thomas Jefferson and James Madison saw the independence they had worked for slipping away, as the merchants and business class were building a stronger government primarily to encourage commerce. The revolution seemed doomed to becoming irrelevant.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Buttery Branigan Books
• Seitenzahl: 130
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Dezember 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 150mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 204g
• ISBN-13: 9781543950878
• ISBN-10: 1543950876
• Artikelnr.: 54618009

Autorenporträt

Art Rude spent 31 years as a classroom teacher and coach and at the time of this release is the Safety Manager for Stellar Field Service, an oilfield service company in the Williston Basin of North Dakota, where he teaches and coaches safety. His home is a cabin in the woods (called his fortress of solitude) at his family farm in the center of the state close to the Canadian border. This is where he wrote his first book, My Druthers, as well as Political Cocaine. He freelances articles as "a view from the outside," from a spot furthest from the Beltway and population centers of the country in the lower 48. At a younger age, he had a state-level job as the Public Relations and Fund-Raising Director for the North Dakota Democratic Party. Says Rude, "I took the job naively believing the Democratic Party represented the little guy, but when I got into it I found they didn't want me wasting my time with fundraisers with the little guys, I was to go after the big bucks. I left the job disillusioned and resolved to try fix the system. I ran for the state House and Senate on both Political sides, as I believed the problem was systematic and not limited to one side (I even got close!). I started writing after that. A complex problem is not easily understood; I hope I have made it more understandable. More than that, I hope to alter the arguments back to discussion. I also hope Political Cocaine will be a most enjoyable read and that you will be amazed at how much your perspective will have widened, possibly beyond your two-party blinders."