The Uprising: An Unauthorized Tour of the Populist Revolt Scaring Wall Street and WashingtonAn All-Access Pass to the Populist Insurrection Brewing Across the Country Job outsourcing. Perpetual busy signals at government agencies. Slashed paychecks. Stolen elections. A war without end, fatally mismanaged. Ordinary Americans on both the Right and Left are tired of being disenfranchised by corrupt politicians of both parties and are organizing to change the status quo. In his invigorating new book, David Sirota investigates whether this uprising can be transformed into a unified, lasting political movement. Throughout the course of American history, uprisings like the one we are seeing now have given birth to powerful movements to end wars, protect workers, and expand civil rights, so the prospect of today’s uprising turning into a full-fledged populist movement terrifies Wall Street and Washington. In The Uprising, Sirota takes us far from the national media spotlight into the trenches where real change is happening—from the headquarters of the most powerful third party in America to the bowels of the U.S. Senate; from the auditorium of an ExxonMobil shareholder meeting to the quasi-military staging area of a vigilante force on the Mexican border. This is vital, on-the-ground reporting that immerses us in the tumultuous give-and-take of politics at its most personal. Sirota also offers a biting critique of our politics. He shows how the uprising is, at its core, a reaction to faux “bipartisanship” in the nation’s capital—the “bipartisanship” whereby Republican and Democratic lawmakers join together in putting the agenda of corporate interests above all those of ordinary citizens. Ultimately, Sirota reminds us that the Declaration of Independence, “America’s original uprising manifesto,” says that governments “derive their powers from the consent of the governed.” Irreverent and insightful, The Uprising shows how the governed have stopped consenting and have started taking action. |
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... politicians suck up to and Republican politicians berate. For a while, the Washington crowd judged Markos by his appearance, downplaying his relevance, pillorying him as an amateur who didn't.
... politicians suck up to and Republican politicians berate. For a while, the Washington crowd judged Markos by his appearance, downplaying his relevance, pillorying him as an amateur who didn't.
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... politicians started seeing him as an ATM machine—a person who, because he had thousands of politically interested readers (the “Kossacks”), could generate fairly serious campaign contributions for candidates. Now, as the brain behind ...
... politicians started seeing him as an ATM machine—a person who, because he had thousands of politically interested readers (the “Kossacks”), could generate fairly serious campaign contributions for candidates. Now, as the brain behind ...
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... politicians...urban third parties... socialists in Congress...big-time lawmakers courting Internet activists...the Minutemen...shareholder activism... Though I don't know exactly how it all fits together, I know it is all part of ...
... politicians...urban third parties... socialists in Congress...big-time lawmakers courting Internet activists...the Minutemen...shareholder activism... Though I don't know exactly how it all fits together, I know it is all part of ...
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... politicians pass more tax breaks for the superwealthy, and CEOs pay themselves tens of millions of dollars a year. “There's class warfare, all right,” billionaire Warren Buffett recently told the New York Times. “It's my class, the rich ...
... politicians pass more tax breaks for the superwealthy, and CEOs pay themselves tens of millions of dollars a year. “There's class warfare, all right,” billionaire Warren Buffett recently told the New York Times. “It's my class, the rich ...
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... politicians, pundits, and business executives who make up this nation's ruling class. There may be less physical brutality, but the stridency from the Establishment is just as pronounced —and the tactics may be more effective in their ...
... politicians, pundits, and business executives who make up this nation's ruling class. There may be less physical brutality, but the stridency from the Establishment is just as pronounced —and the tactics may be more effective in their ...
Contents
WHAT KIND OF HARDBALL CAN STOP AWAR? | |
THE BOSS AND HIS FUSION MACHINE | |
THE PERMANENT BARRIER | |
MAD AS HELL AND NOT GONNA TAKE IT ANYMORE | |
MAINSTREAMING THE MILITIA | |
DILBERTS OF THE WORLD UNITE | |
THE BLUECHIP REVOLUTIONARIES | |
CHASING THE GHOSTS OF CHICAGO | |
NOTES | |
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | |
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