Reply #9: Reading it now.

[athena]

It's very good. One important thing I've learned from it is how conservatives have had to completely erase money from their rhetoric to be able to paint themselves as the opressed underclass and liberals as the elite who control everything. It's by claiming that money is irrelevant that they manage to get the votes of the working poor while cutting taxes and making the rich richer. According to their theory of the world, the oppressors are the latte-drinking, Volvo-driving, Ivy-educated liberals whose aim is to destroy good old American values, and the oppressed are the conservatives -- blue-collar workers and millionnaires alike -- who believe that abortion is an abomination and evolution just a theory. In their view, the evil liberals control the media even when all the major media conglomerates are conservative, and dominate politics even when all three branches of government are republican. It's amazing.

Everybody needs to read this book.