This book is a critique of the American political scene set up as a political campaign agenda, and divided into several main categories. Each category consists of one paragraph policy statements on current issues, and quite a few more as well. The first half of each category is fairly conventional, if satirical; the last half gets downright aggressive.
I posed many of these issues during the 2000 presidential campaign, when I was a staff columnist for the University of Texas at Austin student newspaper, the Daily Texan. Washington has been so completely focused on terrorism and Iraq since then that virtually all of the issues remained unresolved.
As I have tried over the last few years to promote free discussion of these ideas, on the web in news groups and via my own various websites, it is dismaying that most people don’t even care about civil rights, human rights, the environment, or even the advancement of science. Thus it is necessary here to take an very strong position in order to break through this abject apathy.
I apologize if anybody feels offended by any statements I make here. All I can say is that virtually no segment of American society is left unscathed, and to also say that the truth is not such a good thing – especially if it has been neglected so completely for so many years. I am not alone it being alarmed at the rapid deterioration of American values lately, but I am alone in taking the incentive to show people what is happening – by every means necessary, from satire to humor, invective to arm twisting.
It is not my intention to present a palate of dramatic new ideas, and for the reader to accept them wholesale. Quite the contrary, I wish to generate open discussion of important ideas vital to the long term well fare and health of American society. Sadly, you will not hear anything anywhere in this book discussed by any presidential candidate or other candidate to national office; that itself is the most alarming thing of all.