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What Happened to American Values and the American Dream? This book explains all.
As a conservative professor I'm horrified with what's happening on college campuses: cries for safe spaces, screams of micro aggressions, demands for trigger warnings. And what's happening on college campuses is mirrored in society at large—sensible policies & logical proposals are being labeled racist, misogynist, *phobic.
What's going on? Have we as a nation gone insane? What's happening with America? Eric Bolling's new book "Wake Up America" gives us the answer:
"There’s simply no mistaking it: American values are under attack. We face real threats from abroad, but there’s a more subtle danger that we often overlook: the collapse of the virtues that helped make this country great. They are precisely the pillars of our society that the Left knows they have to undermine in order to create their bleak, gray, egalitarian utopia." - Eric Bolling
The collapse is due to the radical left (I call them the social justice warrior, or SJW Left), who are actively working through the media and academia to ridicule and demean those virtues that made America great. As Bolling puts it:
"In their endeavor to radically reform American society, the socialist Left has used fear, shame, and class warfare to divide us. They recognize that doing so is essential to destroying the many qualities that have made America an exceptional nation since its founding."
What are these virtues? Bolling lists them as: grit, profit, manliness, thrift, individuality, dominion, merit, pride, and providence. Each virtue is described in its own chapter and supported with historical examples, with recent data & news, with personal anecdotes, and with good-old-fashioned logic and common sense.
Of course you'll have to buy the book to learn the details of these virtues. But what's refreshing is that Eric has lived them and has used them to rise from poverty to being both a successful trader and a successful cable news pundit. (In case you didn't know, Eric Bolling hosts the number one rated Saturday Cable TV show "Cashin In", as well as The Five)
In closing, 'President Ronald Reagan famously said that “freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.”'
Don't let this happen. Buy this book, understand the importance of the nine virtues, and vote to save them.
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Grade: A++
June 2016 · Books · verified purchase