The Revolution
Chapter One
Every election season America is presented with a series of false
choices. Should we launch preemptive wars against this country or
that one? Should every American neighborhood live under this social
policy or that one? Should a third of our income be taken away by an
income tax or a national sales tax? The shared assumptions behind
these questions, on the other hand, are never cast in doubt, or even
raised. And anyone who wants to ask different questions or who
suggests that the questions as framed exclude attractive, humane
alternatives, is ipso facto excluded from mainstream discussion.
And so every four years we are treated to the same tired,
predictable routine: two candidates with few disagreements on
fundamentals pretend that they represent dramatically different
philosophies of government.
The supposedly conservative candidate tells us about "waste" in
government, and ticks off $10 million in frivolous pork-barrel
projects that outrage him-the inevitable bridge-to-nowhere project,
or a study of the effects of celery consumption on arresting memory
loss-in order to elicit laughter and appl ... read full excerpt from: The Revolution: A Manifesto ebook
