We Can Have a Better Country: A Progressive Reader's Guide

With lots of help from fellow blogger Carl and helpful reviews of one chapter by other fellow bloggers Laird and George, a new book title is available for your reading list: We Can Have a Better Country: A Progressive Reader's Guide, by Lloyd Chambless. There are some excellent books available on what is wrong with our country and how the country could be improved, but the topics are broad and a compendium may be useful. The book could not come out at a better time, with the Sanders presidential campaign doing so well and the Democracy Awakening meeting/march in Washington planned for April. It is almost as if both groups had a pre-publication copy!! As most of us know, the U.S. political system and the resulting economy are not serving us well and are serving us a little worse each year. The primary reason for this is the influence of money in politics - our democracy is broken. The start on the road to a better country is when enough of us realize this. Next we will have to realize that change is possible, but that it is unlikely unless we change our politics. Having many disparate groups each fighting alone for its own small piece of progressive change, be it about climate change, social justice, or whatever, has little chance of significant success. It is time to work together! My book weaves together material from the many fine books on individual pieces of this tapestry, on the status of our political economy, how we got to this point, and on the pathway to a better country. You can get the book at Amazon (eBook or paperback), or at https://www.createspace.com/6043009 for the paperback.