Reviews for Democracy Gone

The average rating for Democracy Gone based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2013-12-22 00:00:00 Michael Mack I bought this book after I read a fantastic review of it. The review challenged my social-moderate-with-liberal-leanings views and made me think it would be good for me to read this book, even if it might not be enjoyable to have liberal views laid bare in the same way that conservative views often are. Well, I was right about not enjoying it, but it wasn't because the liberal views were taken to task...this book is full of anecdotes, which should be a good thing, but they're recounted in a vitriolic way by an author who is obviously not even a little bit sympathetic to social liberals. In the process, his points (which are actualy good ones) are often obscured and you end up just being annoyed with his method of communicating. I ended up learning more from the chapter titles than from the chapters themselves, and I think the book would have been better if it had: (a) been shorter, perhaps even essay-length, going straight to the author's very valid points; and (b) included fewer stories and more solid, better organized research, statistical and otherwise. Unfortunately, the way it is written rather works against the author's points, making the right-wing social conservative author (and, by extension, his intellectual colleagues) look like unreasonable, mean-spirited complainers.

Review # 2 was written on 2013-12-29 00:00:00 Don Stobaugh In Makers and Takers: How Conservatives Do All the Work While Liberals Whine and Complain the author, Peter Schweizer, contrasts what the left spouts confidently as factual with more scientific survey-based truth and blasts what liberals hope what they want the general public to accept as true. This was the tactic used by Hitler and the National Socialists (Nazis) used, to paraphrase: Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it! This is so obvious when you take a skeptical look at what is being claimed as fact. The author points out that in many of these cases those putting out false accusation as facts are essentially doing what they claim the targets of their propaganda are doing. Their philosophy can be summed up as Do as I say, not as I do. Examples are plentiful and are presented by the author throughout the book. He draws on national polls and academic studies, along with actual testimony by liberals themselves. He also states that the emergence of this type of liberalism as a philosophy of selfishness is a direct result of big government.