Nickolai

A Book review by William Hawes

They are unhinged, mentally ill, and represent a clear and present danger to the world.”
Exceptional America is the type of book with which you have to laugh in order not to cry. Mugambi Jouet systematically explains how Americans are born and raised into an anti-intellectual culture where harsh incarceration practices, Christian fundamentalism, gun violence, and a plutocratic economic structure control the lives of average citizens.
Jouet, a lawyer, reveals in the introduction of the book the strict, Old Testament-style of the U.S. judicial system, in which his client is faced with a sentence far longer than necessary. When Jouet appeals to reason by pointing out that lengthy sentences do little to reduce crime, put a drain on public finances, as well as explaining that rehabilitation is far more effective, the judge shuts him down.
His client is charged six years for a minor, non-violent drug offense. After one reads these first pages, one can hear a gavel smashing down giving judgment, but it isn’t toward Jouet’s client: It is directed squarely at the U.S. criminal justice system. To further his point, Jouet appropriately quotes Camus: “One can judge a society by its prisons.”
Jouet explains that Alexis de Tocqueville was not referring to American exceptionalism as a simply positive characteristic, but that America was exceptional in its uniqueness. Being one of a kind has positive and negative qualities in terms of society and governance.
For instance, conservative America’s fundamentalist belief in the Christian God and the End Times fuels the far-right wing belief that the United States can do no wrong in foreign policy and even domestically. On a positive note, most Americans perceive themselves as classless—or at least part of a broad middle class, in which the industrious can get ahead and egalitarianism is encouraged.
Perceptions can be misleading. Although Americans pay lip service to promoting an egalitarian society, wealth ine******y continues to deepen. As Jouet shows, religious indoctrination, massive egos, and privileged upbringings have convinced citizens that one’s ignorant view deserves just as much respect as another’s reasoned, thoughtful arguments.
While liberal America tacks very close to European political worldviews, conservative America has moved off the map to the right ideologically compared to other Western nations. As Jouet shows, right-wing America has deepened its commitment toward uninformed policy positions and demonstrates a lack of empathy regarding health care and the pro-life position, as well as a lack of planetary awareness regarding c*****e c****e.
In Chapter Six, Jouet dev**es time to understanding how Americans v**e against their economic interests, blaming anti-intellectualism among right-wingers, and makes an important connection between religious fundamentalism and market fundamentalism.
He also points out how a racial divide due to s***ery, segregation, and structural r****m has kept white America from joining forces with minorities to form a class-based political identity.
Jouet is also quick to point out that what many Americans call patriotism is really nationalism: believing in the myth of “American exceptionalism,” which is simply a not-so-subtly coded way of saying the U.S.A. is superior to every other nation. There is a knowledge gap regarding world affairs that continues to slide Americans into a more insular, venal attitude toward the international community.
Jouet provides startling statistics about how little Americans know about world geography, history, and international leaders. He does not, however, offer much of a model going forward as to how to stem the tide of anti-intellectualism in the U.S.
Toward the end of the book, Jouet touches on the rise of authoritarian nationalism rising around the world, citing the e******n of Trump and the National Front’s influence in France. Jouet is very smart, and informed about many nation’s politics and culture, yet he either does not have the inclination or the background to connect the problems of American ignorance, religious fundamentalism, market neoliberalism, and imperialism back to our system of ever-increasing exploitation and ine******y due to capitalism.
Jouet offers the tepid liberal trope that Americans, if better educated, should and will accept a social democratic system, citing Sweden and Japan as models where wealth ine******y is relatively low and standards of living and general happiness are high.
Unfortunately, although Jouet acknowledges that “social democracy will not lead to utopian societies in America, Europe, or elsewhere,” his mild call for what some call a “New New Deal,” while laudable, will fall on deaf ears. American political leaders, the “elite,” are mentally unfit for office (see Trump, Donald) and are not prepared to listen, take advice, or think rationally, just as in the start of the book, the judge was not willing to heed his well-reasoned argument for a reduced sentence for his defendant.
What Jouet and other well-meaning progressives fail to see is that the U.S. elite are not simply anti-intellectual or market and religious extremists: They are unhinged, mentally ill, and represent a clear and present danger to the world. Jouet’s call for social democracy and redistribution is like the progressive version of Trump’s call to “Make America Great Again,” except in liberal-left form, it would go something like: “Make America Keynesian Again.” 
Jouet and other progressives do not want to face facts: Mainstream American culture and its political system are in a steep decline, and reforming around the edges is not going to solve the core issues at the dark heart of neoliberal capitalism. Only a radical restructuring of the economy with a new emphasis on sustainability, the interdependence of nations, and international solidarity with the meek of the world, with t***snational bodies able to share resources, food, medicine, and technology, will be able to guarantee a future for all of us.
That would be a truly exceptional path for us to take.

America Only Loc: From the right hand of God

William Hawes...wants c*******m....no wonder you quote his book... Gay and a C****e...right up YOUR alley.

Nickolai

Hawes is the reviewer not the author I don't know of any opinion of William Hawes

Glaucon

you must be very old to remember when anyone gave a s**t about c*******m. C*******m has failed in every attempt to install it. It is never going to work because it is contrary to human instinctive behavior. Give it up and get a new imaginary boogy man. Now we blame everything on Obama or Hillary and they will soon be replaced by some other fantasy boogy man.

We also have an instinct for self deception and you can use that as long as you don't discover you are deluding yourself.

Steve700

Your way off base here. Regarding Obama and Hillary, you don't recognize a c*******t when you see one. They both are Alinskyites 100% and Alinsky was a c*******t. His book "Rules for Radicals" is of course meant for c*******t radicals. C*******m is taking over our country and were more than halfway there and it won't stop and here's the proof:

The plan of the c*******ts Is Working, to let our subversion evolve slowly & so that the ignorant masses will never perceive how they are being manipulated into c*******m.
This is Really Bad. All Americans should read and familiarize themselves with this to understand how far down the road to tyranny and of losing our country we are.

Pay particular attention to the ones below in big BLUE bold print (#15 through#42) -- You will see that the C*******t Party goals and the agenda of the Democrats is identical.

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES and into the congressional record --- Thursday, January 10, 1963

At Mrs. Nordman's request, I include in the RECORD, under unanimous consent, the following "Current C*******t Goals," which she identifies as an excerpt from "The Naked C*******t," by Cleon Skousen:

Current C*******t Goals For The O*******w of America:

1. U.S. Acceptance of coexistence as the only alternative to atomic war.
2. U.S. Willingness to capitulate in preference to engaging in atomic war.
3. Develop the illusion that total disarmament [by] the United States would be a demonstration of moral strength.
4. Permit free trade between all nations regardless of C*******t affiliation and regardless of whether or not items could be
Used for war.
5. Extension of long-term loans to Russia and Soviet satellites.
6. Provide American aid to all nations regardless of C*******t domination.
7. Grant recognition of Red China. Admission of Red China to the U.N.
8. Set up East and West Germany as separate states in spite of Khrushchev's promise in 1955 to settle the German
Question by free e******ns under supervision of the U.N.
9. Prolong the conferences to ban atomic tests because the United States has agreed to suspend tests as long negotiations
Are in progress.
10. Allow all Soviet satellites individual representation in the U.N.
11. Promote the U.N. As the only hope for mankind. If its charter is rewritten, demand that it be set up as a one-world
Government with its own independent armed forces.
(Some C*******t leaders believe the world can be taken over as easily by the U.N. As by Moscow. Sometimes these
Two centers compete with each other as they are now doing in the Congo.)
12. Resist any attempt to outlaw the C*******t Party.
13. Do away with all loyalty oaths.
14. Continue giving Russia access to the U.S. Patent Office.
15. Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.
16. Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions by claiming their activities violate'civil rights
17. Get control of the schools. Use them as t***smission belts for socialism and current C*******t propaganda.
Soften the curriculum. Get control of the teachers associations. But the party line in textbooks.
18. Gain control over all student newspapers.
19. Use student r**ts to foment public protests against programs or organizations which are under C*******t
Attack.
20. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book- review assignments, editorial writings, policymaking positions.
21. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures.
22. Continue disconnecting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American
C*******t cell was told to "Eliminate all the good sculpture from parks and buildings, substituting
Shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms".
23. Control art critics and directors of art museums.
24. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them censorship and a violation of free speech and free press.
25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines,
Motion picture, radio and TV.
26. Promote homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as "normal, natural and healthy".
27. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with social religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize
The need for intellectual maturity which does not need a "religious crutch".
28. Eliminate prayer or any phase of religions expression in the schools on the grounds that it violates the
Principle of "separation of church and state"
29. Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to
Cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis.
30. Discredit the American founding fathers present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the
"common man" (this is the way the founding fathers are noe presented in our school system)
31. Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history on the grounds that it
Was only a minor part of the "big picture".
32. Support any social movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture, education, social
Agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc.
33. Eliminate all laws and procedures which interfere with the operation of the C*******t apparatus.
34. Eliminate the House committee on un-American activities.
35. Discredit and eventually dismantle the FBI.
36. Infiltrate and gain control over the unions
37. Infiltrate and gain control over big business
38. T***sfer some of the powers of arrest from the police to social agencies. Treat all behavior problems as
psychiatric disorders, which no one but psychiatrists can understand [or treat]
39. Dominate the psychiatric profession and use mental health laws as a means of gaining coercive control for
those who oppose C*******t goals
40. Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.
41. Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents. Attribute prejudices,
mental blocks and r****dation of children to the suppressive influences of parents.
42. Create the impression that violence and i**********n are legitimate aspects of American tradition; that
Students and special interest group should rise up and use "United Force" to resolve economic, political
and social problems.
43. O*******w all colonial governments before native populations are ready for self-government.
44. Internationalize the Panama Canal.
45. Repeal the Connally reservation so the United States cannot prevent the World Court from seizing jurisdiction over
domestic problems. Give the World Court
jurisdiction over nations and the individual alike.


Can you see that the goals and objectives of the deep state shadow government, the C*******ts, and the Democratic Party are all the same. They are the goals of globalism to which we will have to surrender our individual freedoms, our guns (as a defense against a tyrannical government gone rogue), our free speech and our national sovereignty -- all to be given over to the authority of an all powerful unelected one world government. Is that really what you want?

That is what Trump and Putin is against and why the left so demonizes Russia, which isn't even c*******t anymore.

Do you see that the objective is the destruction of the integrity of this nation by causing us to become degenerate and breaking down the very moral fabric that is the foundation of this country. Only through our destruction can they gain total power and build their tyrannical system. The common people unwitting believe this fantasy utopia they strive for, through working to bring about fairness, e******y & no prejudices will stop (imagined) oppression and be an improvement to their lives. That's why Stalin called his helpers in the revolution "Useful I***ts".

Please Respond after a thorough look, particularly of what is in blue

Steve700

Obviously his opinion comes out in his reviews, but never mind that, I am still waiting for you to respond to this:

The plan of the c*******ts Is Working, to let our subversion evolve slowly & so that the ignorant masses will never perceive how they are being manipulated into c*******m.
This is Really Bad. All Americans should read and familiarize themselves with this to understand how far down the road to tyranny and of losing our country we are.

Pay particular attention to the ones below in big BLUE bold print (#15 through#42) -- You will see that the C*******t Party goals and the agenda of the Democrats is identical.

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES and into the congressional record --- Thursday, January 10, 1963

At Mrs. Nordman's request, I include in the RECORD, under unanimous consent, the following "Current C*******t Goals," which she identifies as an excerpt from "The Naked C*******t," by Cleon Skousen:

Current C*******t Goals For The O*******w of America:

1. U.S. Acceptance of coexistence as the only alternative to atomic war.
2. U.S. Willingness to capitulate in preference to engaging in atomic war.
3. Develop the illusion that total disarmament [by] the United States would be a demonstration of moral strength.
4. Permit free trade between all nations regardless of C*******t affiliation and regardless of whether or not items could be
Used for war.
5. Extension of long-term loans to Russia and Soviet satellites.
6. Provide American aid to all nations regardless of C*******t domination.
7. Grant recognition of Red China. Admission of Red China to the U.N.
8. Set up East and West Germany as separate states in spite of Khrushchev's promise in 1955 to settle the German
Question by free e******ns under supervision of the U.N.
9. Prolong the conferences to ban atomic tests because the United States has agreed to suspend tests as long negotiations
Are in progress.
10. Allow all Soviet satellites individual representation in the U.N.
11. Promote the U.N. As the only hope for mankind. If its charter is rewritten, demand that it be set up as a one-world
Government with its own independent armed forces.
(Some C*******t leaders believe the world can be taken over as easily by the U.N. As by Moscow. Sometimes these
Two centers compete with each other as they are now doing in the Congo.)
12. Resist any attempt to outlaw the C*******t Party.
13. Do away with all loyalty oaths.
14. Continue giving Russia access to the U.S. Patent Office.
15. Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.
16. Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions by claiming their activities violate'civil rights
17. Get control of the schools. Use them as t***smission belts for socialism and current C*******t propaganda.
Soften the curriculum. Get control of the teachers associations. But the party line in textbooks.
18. Gain control over all student newspapers.
19. Use student r**ts to foment public protests against programs or organizations which are under C*******t
Attack.
20. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book- review assignments, editorial writings, policymaking positions.
21. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures.
22. Continue disconnecting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American
C*******t cell was told to "Eliminate all the good sculpture from parks and buildings, substituting
Shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms".
23. Control art critics and directors of art museums.
24. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them censorship and a violation of free speech and free press.
25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines,
Motion picture, radio and TV.
26. Promote homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as "normal, natural and healthy".
27. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with social religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize
The need for intellectual maturity which does not need a "religious crutch".
28. Eliminate prayer or any phase of religions expression in the schools on the grounds that it violates the
Principle of "separation of church and state"
29. Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to
Cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis.
30. Discredit the American founding fathers present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the
"common man" (this is the way the founding fathers are noe presented in our school system)
31. Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history on the grounds that it
Was only a minor part of the "big picture".
32. Support any social movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture, education, social
Agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc.
33. Eliminate all laws and procedures which interfere with the operation of the C*******t apparatus.
34. Eliminate the House committee on un-American activities.
35. Discredit and eventually dismantle the FBI.
36. Infiltrate and gain control over the unions
37. Infiltrate and gain control over big business
38. T***sfer some of the powers of arrest from the police to social agencies. Treat all behavior problems as
psychiatric disorders, which no one but psychiatrists can understand [or treat]
39. Dominate the psychiatric profession and use mental health laws as a means of gaining coercive control for
those who oppose C*******t goals
40. Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.
41. Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents. Attribute prejudices,
mental blocks and r****dation of children to the suppressive influences of parents.
42. Create the impression that violence and i**********n are legitimate aspects of American tradition; that
Students and special interest group should rise up and use "United Force" to resolve economic, political
and social problems.
43. O*******w all colonial governments before native populations are ready for self-government.
44. Internationalize the Panama Canal.
45. Repeal the Connally reservation so the United States cannot prevent the World Court from seizing jurisdiction over
domestic problems. Give the World Court
jurisdiction over nations and the individual alike.


Can you see that the goals and objectives of the deep state shadow government, the C*******ts, and the Democratic Party are all the same. They are the goals of globalism to which we will have to surrender our individual freedoms, our guns (as a defense against a tyrannical government gone rogue), our free speech and our national sovereignty -- all to be given over to the authority of an all powerful unelected one world government. Is that really what you want?

That is what Trump and Putin is against and why the left so demonizes Russia, which isn't even c*******t anymore.

Do you see that the objective is the destruction of the integrity of this nation by causing us to become degenerate and breaking down the very moral fabric that is the foundation of this country. Only through our destruction can they gain total power and build their tyrannical system. The common people unwitting believe this fantasy utopia they strive for, through working to bring about fairness, e******y & no prejudices will stop (imagined) oppression and be an improvement to their lives. That's why Stalin called his helpers in the revolution "Useful I***ts".

Please Respond after a thorough look, particularly of what is in blue

rebob14

The ultimate end of all governments. Once the cult of personality is entrenched, hysteria soon follows!