Crashing the Gate: Netroots,
Grassroots, and the Rise of People-
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Moulitsas
Enthusiastically Recommended For Anyone Involved In Grassroots Politics.
Crashing the Gate is a shot across the bow at the political establishment in
Washington, DC and a call to re-democratize politics in America. This book
lays bare, with passion and precision, how ineffective, incompetent, and
antiquated the Democratic Party establishment has become, and how it
has failed to adapt and respond to new realities and challenges. The
authors save their sharpest knives to go for the jugular in th eir critique of
Republican ideologues who are now running, and ruining, our country.
Written by two of the most popular political bloggers in America, the book
hails the new movement of the netroots, the grassroots, the unorthodox
labor unions, the maverick big donors that is the antidote to old-school
politics as usual. Fueled by advances in technology and a hunger for a
more authentic democracy, this broad-based movement is changing the
way political campaigns are waged and managed. A must-read book for
anyone with an interest in the future of American democracy.
Crashing The Gate: Netroots, Grassroots, and the Rise of People-Powered
Politics is an unabashedly partisan examination of what needs to be done
to transform the Democratic party into a viable opposition force to the
Republican party, and therefore wrest the nation away from its currently
disastrous neocon leadership. Chapters denounce the harm caused by the
neocon Republican party, and describe what needs to be done to promote
grass-roots opposition within the Democratic party; the authors are quite
realistic about the limits of a two-party system, and offer means to reform
the Democratic party as the swiftest and most practical way to improve
American government. Topics covered include the importance of campaign
finance reform, a trough that both Democrats and Republicans feed off of
all too frequently; the unfortunate prevalence of unrealistic visions and
"single-issue" obsessives within the Democratic party; the changing
landscape of modern media; and much more. Enthusiastically
recommended for anyone involved in grassroots politics.
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