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Need advice on political books.
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I need a book that is relativly easy reading and from the perspective of the left. Political books tend to bore me because they seem to just tow the party line yadda yadda yadda.....i want a different perspective.


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Re: Need advice on political books. [Re: Innvertigo]
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"The Communist Manifesto" ?


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Re: Need advice on political books. [Re: Innvertigo]
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"From Freedom to Slavery" by Gerry Spence

Gerry Spence is a liberal defense attorney who defended Randy Weaver from the Ruby Ridge charges. He brought up some ideas which prompted me to change my opinions on certain things. It is also a good book to recommend to your leftist friends which might prompt them to re-evaluate some of their opinions, whereas a writer from a different perspective (more 'right wing') might turn them off and piss them off.


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To call humans 'rational beings' does injustice to the term, 'rational.'  Humans are capable of rational thought, but it is not their essence.  Humans are animals, beasts with complex brains.  Humans, more often than not, utilize their cerebrum to rationalize what their primal instincts, their preconceived notions, and their emotional desires have presented as goals - humans are rationalizing beings.

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Re: Need advice on political books. [Re: Innvertigo]
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more libertarian than left, James Bovard is good stuff.

try Terrorism and Tyranny


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Re: Need advice on political books. [Re: Innvertigo]
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Linda McQuaig’s The Cult of Impotence


Best easy-to-read book on left wing economics ever...


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Re: Need advice on political books. [Re: carbonhoots]
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Thank you guys, i'm going to read a bit from the other side so i can figure out why some libbies feel how they feel....in theory. :smirk:


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America....FUCK YEAH!!!

Words of Wisdom: Individual Rights BEFORE Collective Rights

"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." -- Thomas Jefferson

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Re: Need advice on political books. [Re: Innvertigo]
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I can help you there.

They suffer from "braincellus lackus".


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You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity. What one person receives without working for another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for that my dear friend is the beginning of the end of any nation. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it. ~ Adrian Rogers

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Re: Need advice on political books. [Re: luvdemshrooms]
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Oh, i know that or my new phrase of the day "lazy thinking"


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America....FUCK YEAH!!!

Words of Wisdom: Individual Rights BEFORE Collective Rights

"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." -- Thomas Jefferson

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Re: Need advice on political books. [Re: Innvertigo]
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hrm

i randomnly open up a few pol forum threads, and everything is still exactly the same...

did you know that thinking isn't something that should be the same with every person? In fact, I do believe that brainwashing is the act of imbedding particular thought channels into a person

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Re: Need advice on political books. [Re: ]
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i randomnly open up a few pol forum threads, and everything is still exactly the same...



That's Bullshit, you haven't seen one line that says "I HATE BUSH" :smirk:

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did you know that thinking isn't something that should be the same with every person?



yes i do, where did i say that people should think the same?

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In fact, I do believe that brainwashing is the act of imbedding particular thought channels into a person 



ofcourse it is, people are brainwashed everyday of their lives, just look at the DNC. :tongue:


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America....FUCK YEAH!!!

Words of Wisdom: Individual Rights BEFORE Collective Rights

"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." -- Thomas Jefferson

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Re: Need advice on political books. [Re: Innvertigo]
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I recommend Al Franken's latest book, "Lies, and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them." The problem with this one, though, is that he doesn't attack issues so much as he tries to discredit prominent people on the right. He tears Anne Coulter a new one, as he does for Bill O'Reilley, Sean Hannity, George W. Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, and many other politicians and pundits. Not all that informative if you're looking for liberal positions on issues(though there is plenty of that in the book). Funny read, though.


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Re: Need advice on political books. [Re: Innvertigo]
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Stranger in a Strange Land Heinlen

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Re: Need advice on political books. [Re: Innvertigo]
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Don't know if this is what your looking for but Animal Farm by George Orwell is a good book.


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