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13 Reddit comments about Listen, Liberal: Or, What Ever Happened to the Party of the People?:

u/nomadicwonder · 27 pointsr/collapse

Yeah, you can all pretend that all this shit started in 2016 after the election of Trump but this movement toward oligarchy has been going on since the 80s and it would have been absolutely no different with Hillary considering her VP pick voted for the same fucking bill. Read Listen Liberal and you'll understand that Trump is just a symptom of a larger systemic problem. As long as you think the corrupt, fake left-wing party known as the Democrats are the answer and that Trump is responsible for the very broken system that enabled him to get elected in the first place, this stuff is completely over your head.

Nuclear war a problem with Trump? That's funny considering Democrats voted to increase the Pentagon budget under Trump's watch to the highest levels in U.S. history.

u/sciencebro · 17 pointsr/ChapoTrapHouse

Thomas Frank's Listen, Liberal is pretty much required reading if you are left/curious

u/chiptheripPER · 7 pointsr/politics

How the hell can you know all of that? Are you fucking psychic? Did you put on cerebro and read thousands of minds at once and determine that 100k worth of russian ads made bernie voters vote for trump and swing the election?

Try this: https://www.amazon.com/Listen-Liberal-Happened-Party-People/dp/1250118131/ref=sr_1_1?crid=27N26CMXK04D2&keywords=listen+liberal&qid=1562273683&s=books&sprefix=listen+lib%2Caps%2C199&sr=1-1

u/And_Im_the_Devil · 6 pointsr/samharris

There's the cosmopolitan elite and the non-cosmopolitan elite, which of course Carlson won't talk about. But the Democratic Party has been the party of the cosmopolitan elite—the professional class, as Thomas Frank calls it—for some time. This is the standard fascist play, though—notice that Carlson never calls for a party of labor.

u/syllabic · 6 pointsr/worldnews

First of all, you're moving the goalposts. Instead of "influencing opinion" now its "spreading misinformation".

Second of all, you do ignore it. It's literally in the leaked DNC strategy documents that they should recruit celebrities to influence people. And it was happening while the democrats were the elected government in power. That certainly fits your definition of an elected government using celebrities for targeted propaganda.

If you want a source on influence peddling read this book:

https://www.amazon.com/Political-Marketing-United-Jennifer-Lees-Marshment/dp/0415632862

Or even this classic, which everyone should read

https://www.amazon.com/Listen-Liberal-Happened-Party-People/dp/1250118131/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1510674209&sr=1-1&keywords=thomas+frank


Ed: Lol reddit, ask for sources, provide sources, downvote anyway because you don't like what those sources say. Classic.

u/tjmac · 4 pointsr/CapitalismVSocialism

And to do with the Democrats not being much of a working-class party anymore. The establishment is more Clinton’s party than FDR’s. Sanders is trying to change that back, but the Clinton-wing will fight tooth and nail to keep their Wall Street donor money.

Read Thomas Frank’s “Listen, Liberal: What Ever Happened to the Party of the People?” for the full scoop.

u/jimbo831 · 4 pointsr/Trumpgret
u/yourideas-suck · 3 pointsr/COMPLETEANARCHY

It would take too long. Try reading a book. Here's one for people like you. And that's the most charitable evaluation of the Democratic Party.

u/robotzor · 3 pointsr/Documentaries

While we're making a list of required reading:

Listen, Liberal!

u/TheSwampDweller · 2 pointsr/politics

read listen liberal by the after mentioned thomas frank, it shows the modern shift to the center right and the harm the third way did to people .

https://www.amazon.com/Listen-Liberal-Happened-Party-People/dp/1250118131

u/fluffyjdawg · 1 pointr/politics

Obama expanded the wars (not to mention the drone program) and passed Romeny Care... That's not why I voted for him in 2008. Not to mention he also failed to prosecute the bakers responsible for wrecking our economy, opened the arctic up for drilling twice, relentlessly went after whistle blowers, and was the first president to drop a bomb everyday of his presidency. He could have done so much better despite the GOP. Read Listen Liberal if you want more information about how much he failed us.

u/Tremendous_Monouga · 1 pointr/politics

Obama continued the New Democrats policies of the Clinton administration to a lesser degree, and failed due to the mistaken belief that the problem was one of argument, and that if you could just get the experts in a room the solution would be found. It's why a good crisis like the financial crash went wasted, we got the New Deal out of an equivalent event in the 30's but this time we got nothing.

If you're interested about this topic, "Listen, Liberal" by Thomas Frank made me understand why as someone on the left I always felt betrayed by the modern democratic party despite their lip service.

u/dpetric · 1 pointr/politics

Exactly. I just finished Griftopia by Matt Taibbi and Listen Liberal by Thomas Frank. Income inequality is the BIGGEST issue facing the country - and it seems way down the list of concerns to most people.

I visit /r/politics multiple times per day, and the top stories are always the most salacious bullshit that's coming out of the latest Trump scandal. I get it. It's all important - but you can't help but feel that those in charge like it when there's more outrage of what porn star got paid off - not the ever widening gap between the haves and everyone else.