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Dismantling America
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
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These wide-ranging essays - on many individual political, economic, cultural, and legal issues - have as a recurring, underlying theme the decline of the values and institutions that have sustained and advanced American society for more than two centuries. This decline has been more than erosion. It has, in many cases, been a deliberate dismantling of American values and institutions by people convinced that their superior wisdom and virtue must override both the traditions of the country and the will of the people.
Whether these essays (originally published as syndicated newspaper columns) are individually about financial bailouts, illegal immigrants, gay marriage, national security, or the Duke University rape case, the underlying concern is about what these very different kinds of things say about the general direction of American society.
This larger and longer-lasting question is whether the particular issues discussed reflect a degeneration or dismantling of the America that we once knew and expected to pass on to our children and grandchildren. There are people determined that this country’s values, history, laws, traditions, and role in the world are fundamentally wrong and must be changed. Such people will not stop dismantling America unless they get stopped—and the next election may be the last time to stop them, before they take the country beyond the point of no return.
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- Mark Penberthy
- 06-08-2023
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I have just listen to this, and while it was written in 2010, it would seem the major issues then are not much different from the ones that have plagued humanity and seem more current today than yesterday.
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- Anonymous User
- 22-10-2023
Sowell hits the sweet spot
Clear and considered, rational and reasoned, Thomas Sowell is at his eloquent best in why America is slowly but surely being taken apart. The Romans would have benefited from such a book before it was too late for them.
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