Interesting, But Grossly Out Of Date.

Having bought this book by accident, thinking that it would have insights into the Republican Party's headlong plunge into Theocratic, White Nationalist Fascism since the election of Obama in 2008, I was deeply dismayed to realise that it was written shortly after Dubya won his second term in office, and therefore, its primary focus is on the invasion and occupation of Iraq, rendering all of the author's opinions, suggestions and recommendations entirely null and void.

Because although yes, there 'May' have been some possibility of the majority of Religious & Spiritual Americans who are not aligned with the Religious Right creating a 'Forth Way' based on Values and Vision, finding common ground and offering practical solutions instead of fighting ideological #CultureWars around the time when this book was written, the window of opportunity for such a movement has long since closed. The 'Division' in America has now become a gaping wound that will almost certainly never close within my lifetime, assuming that it ever heals at all. And in an age when a quarter to one third of all Americans are literally willing to die of Covid or in Environmental Disasters to 'Own The Libs' while actively plotting their next armed insurrection if the Democrats 'Somehow' manage to overcome the GQP's Orban/Putin style efforts to render elections meaningless in 2024, Dubya and Iraq are a distant memory that almost seems rosy by comparison. -_-

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